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Recent Examples of darkly
The topical, darkly funny, whip-smart series from Eric Kripke follows a band of vigilante misfits who fight to expose the all-powerful, corrupt conglomerate Vought International and its stable of villainous superheroes.
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Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Related Stories Jermaine Fowler, James Morosini, Pauline Chalamet, Edy Modica, Rob Yang and Brendan Hunt star in the darkly comedic sci-fi thriller.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 May 2026
Blending a tense crime thriller structure with absurdist, deadpan humor, the film follows a right-wing zealot who travels to a sleep rural town to assassinate a progressive woman journalist – but runs into a series of darkly comic encounters along the way.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 12 May 2026
Co-produced by visionary Spanish helmer El Guincho (of Rosalía and FKA Twigs fame) TURR4ZO is darkly hued and cinematic, infused by dozens of brilliant samples that pay tribute to the richness of Argentina’s music culture.
—Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
The protagonist is a darkly violent, possessive young man named Jacob Cullen, who works in a manor house.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 May 2026
As a high-functioning alcoholic whose outbursts manifest as a kaiju on the other side of the world, Hathaway delivers one of her most limber performances in the darkly comic Colossal.
—Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
In a chatbot, darkly There are a few ways, some of which are more straightforward than others, to ensure that your personal data doesn’t end up in Google’s AI training set.
—ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
The 37-year-old artist has gained international attention for her darkly humorous videos and installations that explore Indigenous identity and cosmologies, ecology, futurism, and the line between history and myth.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Related Stories Jermaine Fowler, James Morosini, Pauline Chalamet, Edy Modica, Rob Yang and Brendan Hunt star in the darkly comedic sci-fi thriller.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 May 2026
Blending a tense crime thriller structure with absurdist, deadpan humor, the film follows a right-wing zealot who travels to a sleep rural town to assassinate a progressive woman journalist – but runs into a series of darkly comic encounters along the way.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 12 May 2026
Co-produced by visionary Spanish helmer El Guincho (of Rosalía and FKA Twigs fame) TURR4ZO is darkly hued and cinematic, infused by dozens of brilliant samples that pay tribute to the richness of Argentina’s music culture.
—Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
The protagonist is a darkly violent, possessive young man named Jacob Cullen, who works in a manor house.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 May 2026
As a high-functioning alcoholic whose outbursts manifest as a kaiju on the other side of the world, Hathaway delivers one of her most limber performances in the darkly comic Colossal.
—Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
In a chatbot, darkly There are a few ways, some of which are more straightforward than others, to ensure that your personal data doesn’t end up in Google’s AI training set.
—ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
The 37-year-old artist has gained international attention for her darkly humorous videos and installations that explore Indigenous identity and cosmologies, ecology, futurism, and the line between history and myth.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for darkly
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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The race there begins somberly in the museum before runners bound up one flight of stairs into a hallway that leads into the main stairwell; from there, the steps settle into continuous, shallow right turns providing a repetitive, hypnotic cadence.—
Michelle Sinclair Colman,
Curbed,
7 May 2026
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The music came back on, and the men danced somberly to wedding music.—
Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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In Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes’ mansion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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For example, professors Morana Koludrovic and Franceska Delija at the University of Split in Croatia also make the point, more pessimistically, however, that the young can no longer learn from the old, not with all the changes in technology and media.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Feb. 2026
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Look pessimistically, and perhaps the inexperience is too much of a barrier.—
Jake Ciely,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Take, for example, Keanu Reeves, who was memeified after a photo of the actor sullenly eating a sandwich went viral.—
Ben Pettis,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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Like a fisherman left empty-handed after a heavy pull at her line, the woman sullenly took Sam’s picture.—
Nora DeLigter,
Curbed,
6 Mar. 2026
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But for now, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer remains at a dismally low 13%, according to the American Cancer Society.—
Yuki Noguchi,
NPR,
12 May 2026
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The assets performed dismally in March but rebounded in April.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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People can be seen running along the top of the bus and sitting on the front bumper as the driver stares glumly ahead from inside windows tagged with graffiti.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative nonprofit American Action Forum, has watched glumly as Republicans have drifted away from their small-government traditions.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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Epidemics such as these are distressingly common.—
Hillary Busis,
Vanity Fair,
11 May 2026
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Most distressingly to protesters, there is no way to request the DNA samples’ destruction, and the process to get DNA profiles expunged from the database comes with extra costs and could take as long as five years.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2026
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“Darkly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darkly. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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