shadowed

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But whatever controversies shadowed him, Acuña never backed down from what he wrote and spoke about, whether in the classroom or at protests.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

In horror, more is more — more gore, more jump scares, more shadowed silhouettes; all in service of scaring the viewer.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

The most abundant resources, in the form of water ice in permanently shadowed craters, are near the lunar south pole.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

True to that ideal, “The Celebration” brings a thrilling, appalling immediacy to its story of a wealthy patriarch’s 60th birthday party, shadowed by a suicide and derailed by the disclosure of a disturbing secret.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

The guests had all left slowly, saying little, their faces shadowed with guilt, as if embarrassed that they had allowed the air raid to ruin the wedding.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie