shade
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Bondi’s memo also threw shade by implication at the use of human translators, while boosting A.I.:
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
But lately the leaders at the 125-year-old law firm spent hours discussing the merits of italics within a custom-made typeface and selecting the exact shade of blue that best communicates the energy of its lawyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
More trees to provide shade, older varieties of cereals that withstand heat better.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Iñárritu spends the film’s first quarter setting the scene and characters — strangely quite literally, raising what looks like a stage curtain but is revealed to be a window shade.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
She had no idea which fungi needed more shade and less water, no clue how to read a book or brew a cup of tree sap tea.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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In Indonesia's Palangkaraya -- part of the epicentre of the fires where thick haze turned the skies into apocalyptic shades of yellow and orange -- residents said they were suffering from its effects on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
It can appear in various shades - from orange to cream - and has now spread to several seaside locations across the UK.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Elsewhere across Italy, different shades of green and brown reveal variations in vegetation, farming activity, and land cover.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
A corona of cosmic doom shades the horizon of “Miss Wolcott’s Ghost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The bruise had ached all morning, its color deepening to shades of indigo.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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So, for example, we see a pair of virtually identical 1961 portraits of a man in a white tuxedo, his face shaded with red flecks that are clearly made by hand when viewed up close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Experts have also pointed to land-clearing practices used to make room for plantations as another factor facilitating the spread of wildfires in Indonesia, with naturally fire-resistant forests replaced by less dense and shaded vegetation.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Long vertical windows opened onto a courtyard shaded by a sprawling olive tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Short came to embody the inverse of that picture, the shaded gloom lurking in places that escape sunshiny illumination.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Redwall stood foursquare along the marches of the old south border, flanked on two sides by Mossflower Wood’s shaded depths.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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For Hartnett, shading in a complete picture, warts and all, is essential to making a character believable.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
In the rush for everyone to claim tech-company status, we lost a lot of good shading in many iconic logos: Warner Bros.,
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Research on overheating in homes shows that shading and ventilation can be important passive cooling strategies: reducing indoor heat without mechanical cooling.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
It’s notable that Aviv uses only the first part of the quote as the essay’s title, shading its meaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Seth looked at me, shading his eyes with a hand.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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