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It’s 7:50 p.m. on a Tuesday as I enter the dimly lighted metaphysical supply store the Crooked Path.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

Sit in a dimly lit restaurant with someone over 60, and you will likely hear them say, "Hold on -- let me pull out my cell phone. I need more light to read the menu!"

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

At the dimly lit town market, a few hundred metres from the jetty, the stalls are still well stocked with fish, shrimp and blue crabs.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Edgar Calel’s dimly lighted installation, in which stones and plant matter dangle over vessels that hold flickering, electronic flames, transports us to a contemplative gnostic ritual.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

By clinging tightly to what she believed she knew, narrowing her thoughts, reiterating her testimony, she was able to keep from mind the damage she only dimly sensed she was doing.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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