dark age

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Recent Examples of dark age Is Trump leading the U.S. into an economic dark age? Mike Patton, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 If this is the future of artificial intelligence, the AI era is going to be a dark age indeed. 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 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 See All Example Sentences for dark age
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Noun
  • The general sales tax increase puts money into the county’s general fund for five years and sunsets in October 2031.
    Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 9 June 2026
  • Shortly after sunset on June 9, Venus and Jupiter will look very close together, in what is known as a planetary conjunction.
    Doris Elin Urrutia, Space.com, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • For millennia, glacial ice and freezing temperatures protected Ötzi’s body — and microbes — from degradation and decay.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • Researchers also confirmed the antenna could split beams between multiple users with minimal signal degradation.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • The global public square has been getting coarser for years, and social media has played a big part in the deterioration.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 1 June 2026
  • The damage required removal of the affected portion in hopes of preventing further deterioration.
    Brian Unger, CBS News, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Construction ebbs and flows with cyclical interest rates.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • Removing the weir will lower the entire lagoon’s water level by several feet and restore the ebb and flow of ocean tides to the basin.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • That translates into clean, unobstructed views toward the west-northwest — crucial for this very low eclipse.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 7 June 2026
  • For those who live outside the eclipse’s path, the ESA will share a livestream of totality from Spain’s Astrophysical Observatory of Javalambre in Teruel.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Jabra has been at the forefront of the OTC hearing aid market since the beginning, aided by a ruthless devolution to continuously refining its audio processing chips and employing always-available audiologists who can tune the devices remotely.
    Christopher Null, Wired News, 6 May 2026
  • Out next month, Star follows the rise of two fictional musical acts—a pop star, Ashley, and Siren8, a teen idol group—and the gradual devolution of fan admiration into obsession, and eventually, violence.
    Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some lambasted the degeneracy of the modern language.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • By some accounts, England began an irreversible slide into degeneracy as soon as the paperback went on sale.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the book, Caputo’s initial pride and arrogance soon give way to a more contemplative spirit, followed by degeneration.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • The research team noted that fatty degeneration of the muscle could be clearly seen on MRIs, as streaks of fat replace muscle fibers.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Apr. 2026

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“Dark age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dark%20age. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.

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