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Recent Examples of penumbral
The stages of the eclipse include penumbral and umbral phases, which refer to the two main parts of the shadow that the moon casts.
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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
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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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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Overhead, the late-summer sky was moonless and staggeringly clear.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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The 84%-lit waning gibbous moon, which lessened the Perseids’ impact on Monday night, will have reduced in brightness by the weekend and will rise around midnight, creating a window of moonless darkness beforehand.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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By tracing a genealogy of conjure, Stewart also seeks to reveal many obscured contributions of Black women to American history.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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How different this trip would have been in the pre-GPS era, when the obscured road sign at one intersection would likely have sent me off track.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
19 Apr. 2018
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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The brand’s giant green owl mascot dances badly, makes obscure pop culture references and pokes fun at the company’s push notifications.—
Leeron Walter,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Indeed, compared to 2005’s Broken Flowers, this is a wilfully obscure step back to his deadpan, experimental roots, a gentle, almost deliberately un-film that is best not viewed in too much proximity to the witching hour.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
31 Aug. 2025
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Alas, The Man said no to his dream of swinging a pickaxe all day within the bowels of a pitch-dark cave, and so poor Steve grew up to be the saddest doorknob salesman that Chuglass, Idaho had ever seen.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
2 Apr. 2025
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Following his four-time Oscar-winning 2019 smash, the director returns in Mickey 17 to sci-fi, skewering autocracy and even attempted genocide in a pitch-dark comedy about colonization.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Gone were the days when students arrived on campus with dim memories of high school civics.—
Sam Wineburg,
The Conversation,
26 Aug. 2025
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BofA sees dim employment prospects for young workers in the medium term, given uncertainty from the new tariffs regime, the adoption of AI, and the general drag on entry-level positions.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
25 Aug. 2025
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Kraus also had a dark backpack on her person.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Lakshmi shared a photo and video of herself at the beach wearing a dark pink bikini while playing in the water.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Penumbral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penumbral. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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