penumbra
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A lunar eclipse takes place when the Moon passes through the outer region of Earth's shadow, called the penumbra.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
But the Earth also casts a wider, and lighter, shadow, called the penumbra, which extends away from the planet at an angle.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2024
While lit with the penumbra of a spotlight aimed elsewhere, he coolly mimed the smoking of a cigarette with a kazoo.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023
His non-adult fiction occupies a penumbra between “not really classics” and “better than most of the crap pushed at kids.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
But such moments were tempered by the long penumbra cast by Everest, which seemed to recede little with the passage of time.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing penumbra
Eclipse Vocabulary
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