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Recent Examples of dark age
If this is the future of artificial intelligence, the AI era is going to be a dark age indeed.
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Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
With most of the studio’s fabled animators having retired and productions being scaled back, Disney entered a dark age of animation marked by edgier stories and alienated audiences.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Exiled by Emperor Cleon XII (a magnificent Lee Pace) to the remote planet of Terminus, Seldon plans to establish a Foundation dedicated to shortening the coming dark age with his disciples, including Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell).
—David Faris, theweek, 24 Apr. 2024
In his Foundation series, Asimov wrote about a hero who must prevent humanity from being thrown into a long dark age after a massive galactic empire collapses.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
With most of the studio’s fabled animators having retired and productions being scaled back, Disney entered a dark age of animation marked by edgier stories and alienated audiences.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Exiled by Emperor Cleon XII (a magnificent Lee Pace) to the remote planet of Terminus, Seldon plans to establish a Foundation dedicated to shortening the coming dark age with his disciples, including Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell).
—David Faris, theweek, 24 Apr. 2024
In his Foundation series, Asimov wrote about a hero who must prevent humanity from being thrown into a long dark age after a massive galactic empire collapses.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dark age
Noun
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Most areas will be open from sunrise to sunset.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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What time is the sunset tonight?—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The one for the reel on which de Sanctis was working, for instance, told a sad story of degradation.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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According to the lead researcher Ernestine Lonpi Tipi, that period coincided with drought and the gradual degradation of forests, and subsequent scarcity of bushmeat.—
Emmet Livingstone,
NPR,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Presbyopia is the gradual deterioration of your eyes' ability to focus on close objects.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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Three others who died after release due to health deterioration caused by prison conditions.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After a layoff, employee trust ebbs, burnout can increase and quiet quitting can become an attractive option for many workers.—
Mark C. Perna,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Marlins 70-79 asthe MLB season ebbs.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 Sep. 2025
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The eclipse will rise over mainland Antarctica and set off the Davis Sea coast of the Southern Ocean.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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The Virgo eclipse gave us the blueprint.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Conservatives saw all this as the devolution of post-Watts rioting into utter lawlessness.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Follow Pope Francis’ example April 23, 2025 Gomez’s devolution was especially dispiriting because L.A. Catholic leaders have taught their American peers how to embrace Latino immigrants ever since Archbishop John Cantwell helped refugees from Mexico’s Cristero War resettle in the city in the 1920s.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Why subject your kids to degeneracy and violence?—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Trump has been tied to Epstein, and though there is no evidence exposing the president’s participation in Epstein’s acts of degeneracy, the question remains on the minds of many Americans — Was Trump complicit?—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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And, based on MRI scans taken at the beginning and end of the study, the intervention group appeared to have slower degeneration of cartilage in their knees.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration describes FTD as a group of brain disorders caused by degeneration of the frontal and/or temporal lobes of the brain that affect behavior, language and movement, according to The Associated Press.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Dark age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dark%20age. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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