shadows
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Here the past doesn’t just cast shadows but continues to do real damage, to the people who survived it and those too young to remember.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
No-one with a spiral bomb like she produced in the 2025 Rugby World Cup final is going to fade into the shadows.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
"We now understand," the team writes, that these are "shadows of an underlying linguistic safety bias."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Known as an abyssal species, it slothfully trawls the shadows like some mournful Lovecraftian being, possessing an especially sluggish metabolism, which isn’t surprising considering its size.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Yes! We agree!" growled mighty Val the miller, who had stood silently listening in the shadows, shoulder to shoulder as always with Ellis, her twin brother.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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