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Adverb
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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 -
What begins as a simple mission becomes a darkly comic exploration of displacement, memory, and the meaning of home.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
Adverb
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This is the year that the Bob Baker Marionettes — whose hipster cred and general renown increased when the theater moved to Highland Park from its longtime home tucked obscurely west of downtown — played Coachella.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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There’s a novella of a wine list, with by-the-glass options obscurely scrawled on a mirror above the bar.—
Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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Darkness Looms Streetlights glow dimly near the entrance to the Havana Bay Tunnel, which connects Old Havana to Havana del Este, on March 7.—
Thomas E. Franklin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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The cavernous lobby is quiet and dimly lit.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Duskily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duskily. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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