dark
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The platform went 'went dark' for US users in January as a law took effect which banned the app unless it was sold by its parent company ByteDance.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025
It added: “Under the threat of the existing Whois system ‘going dark’ for those with legitimate and legal purposes to protect the internet...we have little time to act to meet the May deadline.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2018
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Related: Church burnings after Charleston: part of a 'long, dark' history that never stopped I returned to County Road 258, and turned left.
From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2015
“The intelligence community has worried about ‘going dark’ forever, but today they are conducting instant, total invasion of privacy with limited effort,” he said.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2013
No coaxing, no sugar, no lullaby, no story, even the light was put out and only the red glow of the fire enlivened the ‘big dark’ which Demi regarded with curiosity rather than fear.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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