darken

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Appeared in the October 6, 2025, print edition as 'Federal Buyouts Further Darken Job Picture'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

This observation occurs roughly two-thirds of the way through “Time Will Darken It,” William Maxwell’s 1948 novel about family discord and communal scandal in early-20th-century small-town Illinois.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

“Time Will Darken It” may be principally the story of Austin King, but he isn’t exactly the protagonist.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

“Time Will Darken It” takes place quite a bit later, in 1912, a moment so far out of reach for the reader that Maxwell invokes not history, but archaeology.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

O shrined above the skies, Frown not, clear brow, Darken not, holy eyes!

From Gloucester Moors and Other Poems by Moody, William Vaughn