dark
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One challenge of roasting a whole bird is that by the time the dark meat is tender, the breast is dry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
These findings do not yet establish that dark energy changes over time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
It’s too dark for most kids and not frightening enough for adults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
But over the next year, the spotlight may shine just as much on the dark depths of the driving maul.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Finally, just before dawn, when the sky is still dark, someone calls for the prisoners to make their way to the main building.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
He doesn’t say, though he reveals himself to have a darker sensibility than his “straight Midwestern manner,” as he calls it, might suggest.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
But a new scheme allowing people to borrow SAD lamps from libraries has been launched across Wales to help combat the darker days.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The dynamics, and the exaggerated contrast between the high and light and the lower and darker, make all the difference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Although permanent daylight saving time would mean brighter winter evenings, it would also mean darker winter mornings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
“This looks like yerbabuena, only it’s darker and more potent by the smell of it.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Bond investors would do well to remember that it’s often darkest before the dawn.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Those will be needed as they aim to make an appointment whose first priority will be to stop an alarming slide that is threatening to plunge them in to the darkest of relegation mires.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Guyana's President Irfaan Ali, who is set to meet with Charles during his visit, told ITV News the king's recognition of the "darkest days" was just the "first step".
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
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
I can’t really recall what the packing-up was like or if I even contributed, but we were gone from the clearing and into the darkest part of the woods before the sun was fully up.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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