dark
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She said tenants had received a warning letter from a debt collection agency about three weeks earlier but had since been "left in the dark" about the situation.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
“I felt it lived up to European chocolate, that it was really high-quality in both the milk chocolate and the dark chocolate,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The research, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, reconstructs the universe's first 2 billion years by modeling the interactions between ordinary matter, dark matter, and radiation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
There are hints of Debussy, too, in the chordal undulations of “Electric Sea” and the dark chromaticism that opens “Intonal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
From his hideout in the bushes, with his one good eye glowing feverishly and fur smeared with dark pulp, dear reader, he made even me flinch.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Doss had a sweeter voice and an ear for hooks, while Hart’s work tended to be a shade darker, and he was more inclined to experimentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
In people with darker skin, changes in skin colour may be less obvious, Sesay added, meaning someone looking specifically for the signs described online could miss iron deficiency.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The stop-motion fantasy is the studio’s first film rated above PG, and much of the industry is watching to see whether a darker, more mature animated feature can find an audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Sunlight reaches the exhaust high in the atmosphere, making the spreading plume shine brightly against the darker sky below.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
I'd never noticed it before, but she had a tiny snail-shaped freckle on her neck, two shades darker than her light brown skin.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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The portraits arrived in the years after one of Wales' darkest days.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
This is a skillset of someone who is happiest in the darkest corners of government—the swampiest of swamps—a realm of acronyms, white papers, and multihyphenate bureaucracies.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
The resuscitation of a Dodger brand during what was quite possibly its darkest moment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Demand exploded locally this decade, most memorably during a purple bread mania that swept the archipelago in the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Aunt Maud had come down the road in the darkest reaches of the night, behind her glowing pipe.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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