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shadowy

[shad-oh-ee] / ˈʃæd oʊ i /


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Appeared in the April 25, 2026, print edition as 'A Shadowy Leaker at the Supreme Court'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The track, The Shadowy Light, paired her voice with international musicians, in a song that reflected on death and the afterlife.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

“Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, / Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing,” Sara Teasdale wrote in “September Midnight.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2022

Their aesthetic, partly: the nervy theme song by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, the grainy interstitial film between sketches.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

Shadowy shapes streaked past, and—oh, man—something slimy brushed my ankle.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia




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