shadow
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Pacific time, it will be the sun’s turn to get eclipsed by the moon, with the spacecraft plunging into the darkness of the moon’s shadow for an hour.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Industry experts say that Kimwolf today is a shadow of its former self.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Pope Leo XIV led a torch-lit procession at the Colosseum in Rome on Friday as he prepares for his first Easter as pontiff in the shadow of war in the Middle East.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Now her son is being asked to do his own bit of royal diplomacy in the shadow of another international conflict.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
Clare scoured the room for the badger, but with the candles and hearth fire still snuffed, his eye struggled to distinguish shape from shadow.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing shadow
Black and Gray
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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"Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath
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