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Recent Examples of dark age
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.
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Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy — one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 June 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
Their report, published late last year in the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, found no evidence that the inverter invasion is plunging civilization into a dystopian dark age.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
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Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy — one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 June 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
Their report, published late last year in the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, found no evidence that the inverter invasion is plunging civilization into a dystopian dark age.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dark age
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The orange lights are expected to flip on around 20 minutes after sunset Wednesday, which should give Swift fans time to listen to the podcast, then visit the sculpture.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
13 Aug. 2025
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Head to Sunset Point, a Siesta Key favorite for sunset viewing, which is located at the north end of Siesta Public Beach. Visit The Ringling Museum Sarasota is home to the official state art museum of Florida: the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The degradation of individual and societal health spirals downward while the most powerful controllers of the medical and pharmaceutical industries thrive.—
David Marks,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Aug. 2025
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The degradation and genocide of Indigenous Americans on the mainland is widely known.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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By diplomatic standards, the deterioration has been abrupt.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Other economists — such as those at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and UBS Group AG — interpreted the rapid deterioration in hiring more as a sign of weak labor demand, which would push the Fed to commence with rate reductions at its next policy meeting in September.—
Ashley Lutz,
Fortune,
9 Aug. 2025
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The Dow Jones companies collectively gave up 2% for the day, or 890 points, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ index dropped 4%, its lowest ebb since October 2022.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2025
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Optimism is clearly at a low ebb ahead of the new campaign and a sizeable 50 per cent of respondents are not hopeful at all ahead of the new season, while 38.9 per cent are not very hopeful.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
7 July 2025
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With the eclipse in full effect, the Vault opens and the main players all head down to meet Hari Seldon, who immediately ignores Indbur and addresses the others.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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A day before the fall equinox, the eclipse's best viewing will be in the remote South Pacific Ocean, near Antarctica, south of New Zealand, Space.com says.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
14 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
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Huerter stands by his explanation for his devolution with the Kings and return to form with the Bulls.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 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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The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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International Cat Care says that inherited deafness in white cats is often linked to the presence of the dominant white gene, which can cause degeneration of the inner ear's structures during kittenhood.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Aug. 2025
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According to Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, progressive degeneration of brain tissue in people with CTE includes the buildup of an abnormal protein called tau in a pattern that distinguishes it from other diseases such as Alzheimer’s.—
Jimmy Golen,
Chicago Tribune,
30 July 2025
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