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Adjective
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Abandoned in the dark, rutted parking lot of a run-down strip mall, Nurul Amin would have sensed the shadowy unwelcome of closed and vacant storefronts.—
Dan Barry,
New York Times,
12 May 2026 -
Delta Force, a shadowy Army unit, is tasked with America's most important no-fail missions.—
David Hookstead OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Dara looks fly as hell in a bikini, a blue fuzzy jacket, and ski goggles on her head.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
13 May 2026
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The voice in the recording is tense, fuzzy and hard to make out amid a riot of background chatter.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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Looking beyond the main structure captured by Webb, the galaxy’s spiral arms extend into a faint, wide ring of hydrogen gas stretching thousands of light-years.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
10 May 2026
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Meucci started seeing bright lights and feeling faint.—
Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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Officers, according to Willis, followed muddy footprints to a nearby residence where McKinney SWAT was able to find Murry and handle a search warrant.—
Matthew Ablon,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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Thanks to the rubber slip-resistant outsole, these loafers provide great stability, especially on icy and muddy ground in winter and spring.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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Hulse felt both hopeful and uncertain.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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What was once a slow and uncertain flow of prospective officers has evolved into a steady stream of qualified candidates, producing record-sized recruit classes.—
Joy Lepola-Stewart,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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These small vegetables can thrive in a larger container, under the leaves of a taller tomato plant, or in a shaded area of the yard.—
Haniya Rae,
Martha Stewart,
14 May 2026
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Parking on the roof of the Universal Orlando garage in broad, blazing daylight, then passing two levels of empty, shaded parking slots.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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Even populous British colonies like Virginia and Pennsylvania grew blurry on their western frontiers, where indistinct borders were protected by a few lonely forts.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The video contained audio of the girl choking, as well as indistinct banging in the truck.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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As the naturalist and chef on board, Smith prepared to make breakfast and write about the rainy, foggy conditions in her daily log.—
Megan I. Gannon,
Scientific American,
6 May 2026
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Mira is twelve years old and lives in the Avenues, San Francisco’s foggy western neighborhoods, with her mother, Michalle, who is a nurse practitioner, her father, Patrick, who is a full-time parent, and her sibling, Dylan, who is nine.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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“Shadowlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadowlike. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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