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Depicting the 1066 Battle of Hastings and the invasion by William the Conqueror's Norman army, the tapestry has shadowy origins.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Despite the amount of time passed, a man named Hamed, who was cleared, still occupies a shadowy place in the tale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Thanks to several shadowy backers, three days later, according to my source inside the courthouse, on Saturday, Aug. 8, at 12:35 p.m.,

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

But given the governing bodies’ reputation for shadowy financial doings, there are reasons to think much of the money will never be properly accounted for.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

Half a dozen shadowy forms filled the room.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Shadowy organizations lurk in the shadows of other shadowier organizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025

If that weren’t enough, I was just introduced to an even shadowier cabal of villains who are controlling the people who control the colonies.

From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2022

Angleton had, in effect, weaponized this strategy of interpretation—convinced that any apparently straightforward reference in the world in fact meant something shadowier than it seemed to.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019

Toward the end of the book, we find out where the narrator has been imprisoned, who the shadowy Commandant is, and why everyone is afraid of an even shadowier character known as the Commissar.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2015

The anarchist and critic Félix Fénéon, one of the shadowiest mavericks of turn-of-the-century France, was sometimes described by his artist friends as a Yankee—a term intended to give him a dangerous gloss of American exoticism.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2014

The characters are rather dim and indistinct, the shadowiest of all being Emma, who has no personality at all, and is a mere complement to the immaculate Edmund's happiness.

From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead

I trust I do not seem even in the shadowiest way to comment unfavourably.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett

And it is not quite accurate to say that it had no memory for him, for he brought with him one of that very miller's daughter, though, indeed, it was of the shadowiest silver.

From The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne by Richard Le Gallienne

Had he had the shadowiest suspicion of my plans, of the true inwardness of the Croffut-Dominick movement, he would as readily have offered me his own head.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe