darkened
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High diesel costs have only darkened the scenario.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Ortiz and six other spy-saboteurs, “their hands and faces already darkened by the unyielding sun, donned gandouras and turbans—what the famed T.E. Lawrence dubbed ‘Arab kit’—mounted a string of camels and rode south.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Those summer clouds that had darkened the atmosphere among fans had lingered into the start of this Nations League campaign.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
As I moved from darkened room to darkened room, ridiculed in one, flirted with in another, a thread of finding one’s own personal paradise in a hellscape began to emerge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
We crossed the lobby and entered the darkened theater.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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