- present participle of shade.
shading
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In the rush for everyone to claim tech-company status, we lost a lot of good shading in many iconic logos: Warner Bros.,
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Research on overheating in homes shows that shading and ventilation can be important passive cooling strategies: reducing indoor heat without mechanical cooling.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
He said the focus should be on "passive cooling" such as better designs, shading and ventilation.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
CALI, Colombia—This tropical city is known for the vibrant salsa music pulsating through its nightlife and the stately samán trees shading narrow streets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Not knowing what if anything Grandpa had told when he got back to the store, I was getting uneasy about shading the situation.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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“Coyote” offers intimate shadings on a story that will be familiar to fans of literary biography or anyone who has ever attended a 12-step recovery program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Hall’s performance is remarkable, full of shadings and intimations of significant emotional depths.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
“Now and then, the listener became dimly aware of articulation, accentuation, stress or color shadings, but these nuances were so inextricably tied up with the words that such distinctions could not make themselves felt.”
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2022
The variety of his articulations and shadings was especially fine: sometimes crisp and sparkling, other times milky and subdued, as when the piano part shifts into wistful, minor-mode excursions during the sunny first movement.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
Out of desperation I’d included some of my old Biology drawings, in hard lead pencil with colored shadings.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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