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Recent Examples of penumbral
However, the entire eclipse — including the penumbral and partial phases — will last 5 hours, 38 minutes.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
The entire eclipse, including the penumbral and partial phases (as the full moon moves through Earth’s fuzzy outer shadow, the penumbra, and into its dark umbra), will last five hours and 27 minutes.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
The entire eclipse, including the penumbral and partial phases (as the full moon moves through Earth’s fuzzy outer shadow, the penumbra, and into its dark umbra), will last five hours and 27 minutes.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for penumbral
Adjective
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By becoming the light in a darkened world, everyone becomes a firefly that helps to illuminate the way back home to each other.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Over the weekend, around 16,000 people paid their respects to the designer at his funeral chamber at the Armani Teatro designed by Tadao Ando, filled with white flowers and paper lanterns on the floor in a diagonal grid formation dimly lit up the darkened venue.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There’s also a wide color selection, which includes the dusky pink and plum Disco Dust and the pink, cool purple, and dirty red Electric Cherry.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
12 Dec. 2025
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Behind revolving doors with an Art Nouveau touch is a spacious yet enveloping multilevel space decked in dark wood, sage green velvet and dusky pink carpeting redolent of Riva boats.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
5 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The Orionid meteor shower peak begins tonight, welcoming a spectacular natural light show that could see a flurry of shooting stars spawned by Halley's Comet brighten the dark, moonless sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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On a moonless night in January, a gargantuan turtle was digging a nest high up on a soft sand beach at Galathea Bay on the Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.—
M. Rajshekhar,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Still, the motivations behind the song feel somewhat obscured.—
Jayson Buford,
Rolling Stone,
3 Nov. 2025
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Members of Detroit’s police oversight board are calling for changes to how the department initiates minor stops after two recent police shootings that began with stops for drinking in a parking lot and an obscured license plate.—
Violet Ikonomova,
Freep.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Its 19th-century spire lit up like a matchstick against the darkling sky, its tip cracking and plunging through the ceiling.—
Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Gardenia x daruma is an obscure dwarf hybrid that is hardy down to 20 degrees and, planted on its own, grows no more than three feet tall with small flowers and leaves.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement The Epstein case is yet another reminder of how power can both obscure harm and suppress the voices of survivors.—
Mónica Ramírez,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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But Byrne was also attuned to the script’s undercurrent of pitch-dark humor.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Thanes Tables also offers two private gaming rooms — Moonstone Crypt or Wychwood Forest — where serious gamers can tune out the modern world with dim lighting and murals painted on the walls.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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Others may want lanterns that can provide more than just white light, such as a red night-vision mode or dim power-saving modes.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Penumbral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penumbral. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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