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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
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There’s only one town, San Pedro, with colorful waterfront restaurants and breezy beach bars perfect for sunset rum punches.—
Annie Daly,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2026
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The open desert sky delivers knockout sunsets and some of the region’s best storm watching.—
Ted Alvarez,
Outside,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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Major degradation to their ability to produce the ballistic missiles that have been striking so many of their Gulf neighbors, Israel and elsewhere.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Han’s overarching argument is that the deterioration of our social fabric is due to ritual evaporating from everyday life.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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While virtually every major project targets South Beach, deterioration has begun in Normandy Isle, to the north.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Along the way of most successful rebuilding efforts, or even just more traditional team-building efforts, however, successful teams tend to take a calculated risk or two on some high-pedigree players or high-potential skaters at a low ebb in their value.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Some readers may be old enough to remember the 1976 Bicentennial, which occurred during one of the city’s lowest ebbs and lifted everyone’s spirits.—
John Calvelli,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Before that eclipse happened — and a few years before Bartell Hotels got involved —Humphreys Concerts began in 1982 as a straight-ahead jazz series booked by Rob Hagey, the founder of the San Diego Jazz Festival.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Tang Chhin, meanwhile, took a photo of the waning partial phase of the eclipse, as Earth's curved shadow slipped from the lunar disk, revealing the ancient lava plains of Mare Imbrium, Procellarum, Nubium and Humorum.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Several factors beyond the democratization of the presidential nominating process have driven the devolution of the Democratic and Republican parties.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
22 Feb. 2026
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The devolution of the traditional life style coincided with a surge in social problems.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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One night, Earnshaw goes out for his evening’s gambling and degeneracy and returns the next morning with a new resident for the household.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2026
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The shoot gives Henry a chance to argue with his uncle, who acknowledges that Henry’s recurrent depression is real — he’s previously been prescribed lithium — but has no patience for his nephew’s degeneracy.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
19 Jan. 2026
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Researchers at Cedars-Sinai found traces of Chlamydia pneumoniae – a bacterium that's best known for causing respiratory infections – in the eye's retinal tissue, and higher levels of this pathogen correlated with advanced degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease patients.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Feb. 2026
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By targeting the underlying neuronal degeneration, ER-100 is positioned as a potential disease-modifying treatment rather than a symptomatic fix.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Dark age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dark%20age. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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