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- the raiding party snuck up under cover of darkness
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- blaze,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- day,
- daylight,
- glare,
- glow,
- light,
- lightness
- the darkness of certain passages in the Book of Revelation
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- let's wait for darkness before telling ghost stories
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“Darkness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/darkness. Accessed 19 May. 2022.
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