dark
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The trucks use lidar to see more clearly in the dark, dust and foggy weather and can react faster or avoid a hazard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
It’s shaping up to be a dark autumn for Silicon Valley’s villains.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Taking in villages and towns surrounding Exmoor National Park, the event offers walks, talks and shows - putting the dark, clear, night sky into full focus.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Ice typically builds up throughout the long, dark winter, reaching its greatest extent in March before retreating during the warmer months to a September minimum.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
The small crack in the hull that still needs repair, that I made wider by smashing Nate’s axe into it, is rapidly gulping up the cold, dark water of the lake.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
There is nothing wrong with being a C student — as long as you don’t take your insecurities out on the A students who just so happen to have darker skin.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
The disappearance of reflective ice also exposes darker ocean water, which absorbs more solar energy and can accelerate regional warming.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
With potential good and bad so intertwined, it is hard to know if the technology will bring a brighter future or darker days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
“The trust went both ways, and it enabled us both to go to a darker place,” Cumming says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Her darker cheekbones arch too high on her face, leaving a shadowed valley to her jawline.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
This is a skillset of someone who is happiest in the darkest corners of government—the swampiest of swamps—a realm of acronyms, white papers, and multihyphenate bureaucracies.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
The resuscitation of a Dodger brand during what was quite possibly its darkest moment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
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
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
‘We’ve still got to find the third piece of the Nanuak, remember? “Coldest of all, the darkest light.”
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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