duskiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duskiness
Noun
  • Smoke and blackness enfolded him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Passengers experience a few minutes of weightlessness and get to see Earth against the blackness of space.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • From its first painterly images, of the face of Meryl Streep, sad and tender and lovely in the semidarkness, the film declares its artistry, its sensitivity and its theme.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • She [Daria] looks at me and smiles in the semidarkness, a calm, shy smile, full of love.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • While most of the central bank’s policymakers still see inflation as a bigger threat than the jobs market — whose weakening may be more driven by slower immigration than corporate gloominess — there’s little consensus on the path forward, according to the September minutes released Wednesday.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • But at a moment when many people are in a perpetual state of gloominess — courtesy of the news, social media doomscrolling or streaming/cable dramas that confuse lack of literal illumination with profundity — the pleasantly sunny escapism is difficult to resent.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Not all is doom and gloom with this astrological transit.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The weather is finally shifting to match the season, but celebrity beauty isn’t falling into the gloom.
    Essence, Essence, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Eliza Varadi, a pediatrician in South Carolina, told me that the murkiness around insurance coverage, coupled with lower demand, has prompted her practice to start ordering COVID vaccines just one box at a time—each a batch of 10 doses—to minimize the potential for loss.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification.
    Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mendoza rose out of recruiting obscurity.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Their relative obscurity may have also been an advantage.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • No surprise, then, that this is a fairly respectful rendition, upping the spectacle but staying true to the somberness of Shelley’s cautionary tale.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Duskiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duskiness. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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