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as in darkened
being without light or without much light
finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible
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Recent Examples of pitch-black
Imagine a pitch-black screen in which each of its millions of tiny pixels can turn on or off individually, letting even tiny flecks of light in space burn with their own perfect light.
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Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 8 Oct. 2025
This NiceTown design features a grommet top and promises the sort of pitch-black darkness expected from a product with the word Halloween in its title.
—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
But Caught Stealing’s pitch-black, pulpy mode reveals the drawbacks of prioritizing style over all else.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
The first official trailer for Korean maestro Park Chan-wook‘s pitch-black comedy thriller No Other Choice has arrived.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 8 Oct. 2025
This NiceTown design features a grommet top and promises the sort of pitch-black darkness expected from a product with the word Halloween in its title.
—Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
But Caught Stealing’s pitch-black, pulpy mode reveals the drawbacks of prioritizing style over all else.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
The first official trailer for Korean maestro Park Chan-wook‘s pitch-black comedy thriller No Other Choice has arrived.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitch-black
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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Geirþrúður has wrapped a large towel around herself but her shoulders are still bare and her December-dark hair is wet and wild and possibly blacker than it’s ever been.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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From the balcony, Kate appeared still, serene and composed in an all-black ensemble, accessorized with a black hat, scarf, her RAF brooch and the traditional red poppy.—
Erin Hill,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The sky was cloudless and dark with the moon’s light now below the horizon.—
Sheeka Sanahori,
Outside,
11 Nov. 2025
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Bordered by antique wood pillar columns, the custom wood and glass front doors lead into a rotunda foyer displaying dark polished hardwood floors that run throughout the interiors.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
11 Nov. 2025
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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Velardo’s whereabouts were murky when he was charged in the two investigations in March, 2013.—
Karen Wang,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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But when the two leading figures behind the coup – RSF chief Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in charge of the SAF – began fighting each other, the foreign powers had to choose whom to support – and their involvement became even murkier.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Pitch-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitch-black. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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