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

The major Black character in “Time Will Darken It” is Rachel, the Kings’ maid, an eyewitness to what the bridge players can only guess at.

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

Darken the sun and every engine on the earth's surface would soon stop, every wheel cease to turn, and all movement cease.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew