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darkness

[dahrk-nis] / ˈdɑrk nɪs /




NOUN
lack of awareness
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But although Waititi eventually reveals the darkness at his story’s center, before then he lacquers the film with a calculated gooeyness that’s stultifying before it becomes downright exasperating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Mr. Fisk, Angell writes, “socked the second pitch up and out, farther and farther into the darkness above the lights.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But it's at night, in the quiet darkness, that mother-of-three Dianyra Eka Nastiti grows most fearful.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2007 indicated that the asteroid's surface warmed and cooled rapidly as it rotated through sunlight and darkness.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

I could hear Papa chuckling in the darkness.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls


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