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Those who witness a total eclipse will first see the sky darken.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

But the bottom lines on the accounting ledgers darken the view considerably.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Freshly eroded fragments make the coastal ocean cloudy, while dissolved organic carbon can darken the water.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

Scattered through old Southern community and church cookbooks are recipes for spiced Saltines: butter-soaked, herb-flecked, oven-baked until they darken to a toastier shade of gold.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

The tip of his ring finger had begun to darken too, and when he touched it with the point of his dagger, he felt nothing.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

What complicates and darkens the picture from Andromeda’s perspective is that a significant chunk of AI credit is concentrated in private markets.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

The expansion of plant life darkens the snow and ice, reducing its reflectivity and causing the surrounding area to warm up, triggering ice and snow melt.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Space weathering, caused by solar wind particles, micrometeorite impacts, and cosmic radiation, slowly darkens exposed material.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2026

Eventually he expanded his palette, adding the 20-something Hal and Harper, plus Dad and Kate, whose characters come to the fore in the third episode, which darkens the series’ tone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

“I do. She reminds me of—” His face darkens.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

He built Bayreuth’s Festspielhaus with a concealed orchestra and darkened auditorium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

High diesel costs have only darkened the scenario.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Now those darkened daytime Bradford rooms will take their place alongside other defining names and moments in cultural history inside Tate Britain, home to the biggest collection of British art in the world.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

As I moved from darkened room to darkened room, ridiculed in one, flirted with in another, a thread of finding one’s own personal paradise in a hellscape began to emerge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

I follow him to our darkened compartment, which is already occupied by three sleeping soldiers, a stout nun, and an irritable hen.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

On Tuesday, the IMF will unveil its global economic forecast, along with detailed regional outlooks through the week, as policymakers set about tackling the challenges darkening the economic horizon.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

The supplier to major automakers, including BMW, Volkswagen and Ford slashed its medium-term sales expectations against a darkening backdrop for the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

They also compared tree pollen with fern spores to determine whether the darkening might have been caused by biological differences between plant groups.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

When he first noticed the sky darkening, Chapman thought a storm was coming.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

It began to seem to him that he had walked forever and would walk forever beside this silent being through a silent darkening land.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin