as in darkening
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
the storm clouds dimmed our view of the city from the airplane
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Recent Examples of dimming
The outlook on holiday 2025 at retail is dimming.
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David Moin, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
This transition can lead to your mood dimming.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
Elsewhere, African countries have failed to attract investment into their solar industries despite the continent’s vast potential, with analysts warning excessive regulation is dimming funding prospects.
—semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
What constitutes growth, or what constitutes dimming yourself to be with someone else?
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
The company’s efforts to improve its dimming sales growth prospects with an obesity medicine have largely flopped, leaving the pharma giant sidelined from the industry’s hottest market.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
One, as visible in the Photos app, is to let more of the underlying content shine through the top of the window, dimming it and diffusing it less aggressively.
—ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
By the mid-1930s, however, Husseini’s influence was dimming.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Viture first made headlines with its Pro XR glasses, offering a 135-inch virtual screen and electrochromic dimming.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
David Moin, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
This transition can lead to your mood dimming.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
Elsewhere, African countries have failed to attract investment into their solar industries despite the continent’s vast potential, with analysts warning excessive regulation is dimming funding prospects.
—semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
What constitutes growth, or what constitutes dimming yourself to be with someone else?
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
The company’s efforts to improve its dimming sales growth prospects with an obesity medicine have largely flopped, leaving the pharma giant sidelined from the industry’s hottest market.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
One, as visible in the Photos app, is to let more of the underlying content shine through the top of the window, dimming it and diffusing it less aggressively.
—ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
By the mid-1930s, however, Husseini’s influence was dimming.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Viture first made headlines with its Pro XR glasses, offering a 135-inch virtual screen and electrochromic dimming.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimming
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Other Mommy is described as a supernatural trip into the darkening world of a young girl as her family, and their home, are haunted by a sinister entity that is determined to take up residence inside her.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
16 Sep. 2025
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The resulting scorching ash cloud reached as high as 16 miles into the atmosphere, darkening the sky and causing homes and businesses as far as 300 miles away to close.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, this past weekend, reports emerged that two American military cargo jets deported people to Africa on flights that appear to have had their transponders turned off, preventing tracking by obscuring their locations from public flight databases and other nearby aircraft.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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Differential privacy introduces controlled noise or randomness to datasets, obscuring individual details while maintaining collective patterns.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Sep. 2025
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Bieber is known for creating soft lines in her makeup, often blurring out her lip liner with her fingers before topping it with a signature gloss, and opting for light, smoky brown eye makeup rather than bold liner.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
25 Sep. 2025
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It was filed as the White House has taken steps to exert influence in unprecedented ways on the department, blurring the line between law and politics at an agency where independence in prosecutorial decision-making is a foundational principle.—
Eric Tucker,
Twin Cities,
25 Sep. 2025
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High-Heat-Safe Alternatives While enameled cast-iron cookware is excellent to use for braising, roasting, baking, or gentle stovetop cooking, certain high heat applications like searing steak or blackening fish are best done in other types of pans, like traditional cast iron or stainless steel.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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Each footstep sent up clouds of dust and ash, coating everything, including my mouth and teeth, in fine grit, blackening my snot and saliva.—
River Selby
August 25,
Literary Hub,
25 Aug. 2025
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The move means crucial jobs data will not be released on schedule, clouding the outlook for the Federal Reserve just weeks ahead of its next meeting.—
Tasmin Lockwood,Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Unspoken resentment clouding a connection?—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Dimming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimming. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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