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shadow

[shad-oh] / ˈʃæd oʊ /






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Nobody knows, so managing the U.S.-China relationship must take place under the shadow of important uncertainties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

A shadow can briefly resemble a face, or one object can momentarily be mistaken for another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Burghart, the Conservative shadow Northern Ireland secretary, also attended the meeting and has registered a gift of £4,088.97, covering flights, accommodation and transportation.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Badenoch, along with her husband Hamish and shadow minister Alex Burghart, were flown to Athens on 24 August - with the costs paid for by the Murdoch family's News Corp UK organisation.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Usually when I got scared I could almost outrun my shadow, but I was beyond being scared, I was paralyzed.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Even minor changes in shadows or lighting can trigger the software, producing hundreds of false signals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

There is no next opponent waiting in the shadows, only 80,000 roaring voices, a sea of green, white and orange tricolours and the final chapter of a transcendent career.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Montes shadows the quarterbacks and tries to listen in on Chesney and others whenever he can.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Atlas works in the shadows as “a think tank that creates think tanks,” and trains its partners on “how to win the battle for hearts and minds.”

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Then, use the shadows of the alleyway to make it back to Nate’s car.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Rising Treasury yields have been shadowed by mortgage rates, and the average rate on a 30-year home loan recently topped 7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The dinghy launched in Bay of the Seine and was shadowed for around 10 hours by French rescue boats in case it got into difficulty.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Carefully monitored shadowed regions near the South Pole could allow scientists to test the real limits of microbial survival under conditions that are extremely difficult to reproduce on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Elsewhere in Spain, the same fervour could be seen almost everywhere shadowed by the eclipse, such as the town of Colmenar Viejo, near Madrid.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of life—the inescapable sorrows, the speechless longings, the disappointments, the regrets, the cold miseries.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

The latest measurements suggest that conventional nuclear shadowing by itself is not enough to account for the observed pattern.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

The BBC understands all operational staff complete more than eight weeks of training, which includes shadowing roles in other prisons.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

All new employees get four days of training and then an additional week of shadowing other employees on the floor before they start selling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

The documentary team immersed itself in the 2022 McDonald’s All-American Games, shadowing two boys and two girls throughout the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Kilgore Trout was shadowing him, keen to know what Billy had suspected or seen.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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