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Recent Examples of inky
Japanese, slight in build, sporting a gray T-shirt, with inky hair cut into a modish bowl, neither Greenberg nor Bowyer yet knew the man’s name — Ippei Mizuhara.
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David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Other evidence of bed bugs includes bloody or inky stains on fabric and a sweet, musty smell in the room.
—Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025
Cardi dialed up the goth glam with thin angled eyebrows and a vampy red lip and wore her inky black hair in voluminous curls.
—Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
Other evidence of bed bugs includes bloody or inky stains on fabric and a sweet, musty smell in the room.
—Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025
Cardi dialed up the goth glam with thin angled eyebrows and a vampy red lip and wore her inky black hair in voluminous curls.
—Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inky
Adjective
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The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Smooth hammerheads and blacktip sharks spent comparatively more time near the surface, whereas white sharks, spinner sharks, and dusky sharks were active throughout much of the water column.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Interestingly, Lorraine has taught Judy to ward off her frightening visions by using a nursery rhyme, effectively teaching her to suppress her dark side.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The Dolphins wear white jerseys at home for afternoon games, forcing opponents to wear darker colors that absorb more heat.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Security, errors, and trust dominate the risk analysis Despite the hype and muddled terminology, the core idea of AI agents—systems designed to autonomously take action to carry out specific tasks—is still generating a lot of justifiable excitement.—
Sage Lazzaro,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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The picture is far more muddled, and economists are split over whether Powell will telegraph a likely rate decrease next month or a continuation of the Fed’s wait-and-see approach.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Always look for bright, vibrant heads of lettuce and avoid brown spots or dingy yellow leaves.—
Lauren O'Connor,
Health,
3 Sep. 2025
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Driveway or garage looking a little dingy?—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Gray tones, blacks, murky greens, and of course, the midnight blue complete the look.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
6 Sep. 2025
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But after that, things get murky.—
Sarah Hutter,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Her feet are bare, the toenails a little muddied.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Computers, desks, a washer and dryer were among the belongings in the muddied basement that were wrecked in the storm.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Reclaiming Agency By Managing Your Online Presence Intentionally downplaying appearance by using unfiltered photos or presenting themselves more modestly than in real life can help users filter out people who are only interested in surface-level attraction.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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For years, Stern occupied rarified air, an unrestricted satellite radio show where high-profile celebrities could chat, unfiltered, for hours.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This character development does not really land, however, and Mersault becomes increasingly hazy, disappearing into a cloud of abstraction in the third act.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
2 Sep. 2025
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People take pictures with the Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas sign under hazy orange skies as the sun sets in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 29, 2023.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Inky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inky. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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