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Recent Examples of Synonyms for penumbral
Adjective
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Orcas share the meat of a dusky dolphin among the pod.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN,
26 Sep. 2024 -
If Dylan was the dusky preacher Friday, Nelson was the campfire light.—
Brady Gerber,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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By definition, all solar eclipses occur at the new moon, which means dark, moonless evening skies for a week before and a night after.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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There’s no bad time to see the stars, but for a real spectacle, show up on a moonless night in July or August when the Perseid meteor shower is at its most active.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The banner offers a peek into a relatively obscure group during a critical moment in American history.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2025
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The other is a bit more obscure: Juan Samuel, with 70 extra-base hits and 72 steals as a Phillies rookie in 1984.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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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
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Geo News and broadcaster ARY both reported that a massive raid was launched by security forces in pitch-dark central Islamabad, where lights had been turned off and a barrage of tear gas was fired.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Within the voids, sophisticated observations can detect faint hints of structures, like small, dim dwarf galaxies dotting the vast expanses.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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And, quite concretely, reading has always struck me as a passport to the world, one in which characters are more real than actual people, where values are more intense than in the dim light of reality, where characters fly up into destinies rather than paddle around in ambiguity.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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Dark Universe is home to one of the greatest dark rides of all time.—
Kimberly Zapata,
Parents,
3 June 2025
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Both were crucial mental health resources during that dark time, and both found a wider embrace online for their niche comic sensibilities.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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The incident caused a somber scene near home plate, as Yankees teammates, coaches and personnel huddled around the always-affable 26-year-old before an ambulance took him off the field and to a nearby hospital.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
5 June 2025
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The somber financial picture leaves the city caught between cutting services to the public and finding a way to raise money.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Just 12 hours after entering a pitch-black, 400-square-foot cabin dug into the hillside in southern Oregon, crypto founder Charles Hoskinson fled in terror.—
Mattha Busby,
Wired News,
4 June 2025
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Skims also has the thong in a barely-there blue and a pitch-black Obsidian.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
8 May 2025
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“Penumbral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penumbral. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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