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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

"These are individuals whose careers so far have been hitched to soccer. So thinking about how they navigate the variability of a kind of shadowy ecosystem of the digital media economy is curious."

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

That shadowy process is poorly understood and has undermined progress in the past, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Fluorescent light touches almost every corner, but the few shadowy passages seem even more sinister when surrounded by endless lumination.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

Like, don’t you wonder who the shadowy lady really is?

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Lennox remains for us the shadowiest of personalities, but his disappearance, implying abandonment of the woman he had compromised, tells against him.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne

The higher objects of Government were, if at all, outlined in the shadowiest form in his imagination.

From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Edward Jenkins

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