dark

I think people assume that the guy who created “The Twilight Zone” and was this really creepy, ominous host must have been this very dark and tormented person.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

"I did not choose the traitor life, the traitor life chose me," said the latest recruit to the dark side.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Residents who live in the wildland-urban interface, which is more prone to fire, have to post reflective numbers that can be seen in the dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

It’s the reason so many of us walk to our cars with our keys poking through our fingers, why we tense up when someone walks too closely behind us on a dark street.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

I unscrew the bottle and pull the brush from the pot of dark red liquid.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The pink ball has been a fixture of day-night Tests because it is easier to see than the darker red in night-time conditions.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“L.A. is very pretty and much darker than you would ever imagine,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Then come the chips: hot, sturdy, generously salted, piled into black woven baskets alongside ramekins of fire-engine-red mild salsa and a darker, spicier version flecked with onion and jalapeño.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

In retrospect, Robert Freeman’s autumnal, artfully distorted photograph was an entirely apt image for a worldlier, darker, more grown-up Beatles record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Along his arms, exposed through the rips in the rubakha’s sleeves, were swirls of slightly darker gold.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

King Charles III will acknowledge the "darkest days" of colonial rule and slavery while touring Caribbean countries on a visit beginning this month, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Still, she looms large in Lowen’s imagination, especially when she finds a secret autobiography in which Verity reveals her darkest secrets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

That memory sat at the bottom of my mind’s darkest well until I watched Erin Lee Carr’s “The Swan: Behind the Mirror.”

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

In the left map above, the darkest red areas mark the places where the melt season lengthened fastest during that decade.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

But the notorious Aces took their desires to the darkest place in Marvellian history.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton