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lightless

[lahyt-lis] / ˈlaɪt lɪs /








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While you can’t help but appreciate the cherry red of the deep-sea atolla jellyfish, you will also learn why its unusual pigment persists in the lightless depths.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Much of the deep ocean is vacant, with extremely cold, lightless regions making it difficult for life as we know it to survive.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

There are writers at this very newspaper, all upstanding individuals, who would have you believe a mythologized weather pattern of doom is about to plunge our mountain-nestled utopia into an epoch of lightless despair.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

The boy grows up in the lightless void before managing to escape.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

It’s dark around me, but dark isn’t the word for it, more like lightless.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman