shadows
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Here the past doesn’t just cast shadows but continues to do real damage, to the people who survived it and those too young to remember.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
"We now understand," the team writes, that these are "shadows of an underlying linguistic safety bias."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Three ominous shadows stretch over the memoirs of Sylvester Stallone and Michael Douglas, though none is cast by the authors themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Known as an abyssal species, it slothfully trawls the shadows like some mournful Lovecraftian being, possessing an especially sluggish metabolism, which isn’t surprising considering its size.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The moon was up, full and white, throwing sharp shadows away from me.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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