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[dahrk] / dɑrk /










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He does nothing to change this impression with the dark, compelling “Paper Tiger,” in which Miles Teller and Adam Driver play brothers in 1980s New York who become dangerously involved with the Russian mob.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The streets in the Lukyanivka district are empty and almost completely dark, save for the red taillights of a municipal garbage truck beginning its shift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Sometimes you are sitting in a dark theater with strangers and the right note gets struck, and you hear it with your ears but you feel it somewhere else entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"The city rewards this dark triad behaviour... being uber confident, being able to control and manipulate others, not getting emotionally involved in decisions and being decisive," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I groped back to the cot and huddled there in the dark, setting my teeth against the stink of the bedding, wrapping my coat tighter about me.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Bare ice is darker and less reflective than fresh snow, so absorbs more of the Sun's energy.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

My dad is darker than me, and because I’m lighter, it’s questioned, which I understand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

This effort succeeded, Glass said, despite the exhibit’s candor about the darker elements of the nation’s military history.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Bright sea ice reflects much of the Sun's incoming energy, while darker ocean water absorbs more of it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Seven wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, or her fear, or both, but the world seemed to get colder and darker all at once.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

King Charles III will acknowledge the "darkest days" of colonial rule and slavery while touring Caribbean countries on a visit beginning this month, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Still, she looms large in Lowen’s imagination, especially when she finds a secret autobiography in which Verity reveals her darkest secrets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

That memory sat at the bottom of my mind’s darkest well until I watched Erin Lee Carr’s “The Swan: Behind the Mirror.”

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

In the left map above, the darkest red areas mark the places where the melt season lengthened fastest during that decade.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Near dawn, in the darkest of the night, I heard the sounds once more.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell




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