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Adjective
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The data follows the lackluster August jobs report that helped fuel investor hope that the Federal Reserve is all but assured to lower benchmark interest rates at its policy meeting later this month.—
Brian Evans,
CNBC,
7 Sep. 2025 -
Running back Rhamondre Stevenson delivered a lackluster chip block on the strip-sack, but Campbell shouldered the blame when speaking with reporters postgame.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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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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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
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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
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The land, unfenced, abuts a bald blackened hillside that must be public land.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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In its time open, fueled by fans of its blackened mahi and buttery lobster rolls, owner Mike Smith has expanded his footprint, moving into a larger stall in the popular food hall — which has allowed for a menu expansion, as well.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
6 Dec. 2022
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“Unbright.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbright. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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