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"Many of the mission's primary goals, like studying dark matter and dark energy, wouldn't be possible without it, so it's both exciting and a huge relief to see that it's working well!"

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

It’s shaping up to be a dark autumn for Silicon Valley’s villains.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Colman said there is "very little light pollution on Exmoor", adding it "enables the dark to be really dark with none of the pollution impacting".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

But for sitting in a dark bar to watch an hour and a half of a game while you have one or two drinks, Colombo’s is perfect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

I hide in the dark under my comforter with my travel sweets, furious, but mostly weary of it all.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Sunlight reaches the exhaust high in the atmosphere, making the spreading plume shine brightly against the darker sky below.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

As they scatter, regroup and break off again, the work never stops, even when sources don’t want to trust them, the ground under their feet keeps shifting and the cloud over their homeland gets darker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

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

Vinny, always darker, said, “There were more morons than crooks, but the crooks were higher up.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

Pa’s complexion is the darkest in our family, though still really light, like a white person’s tan, and how he looks is how everyone expects me to look.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera