shade
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They lean casually against the trailers, finding respite in the shade, and line up at the catering tent, which is still serving breakfast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Hodges reprises Orazio’s chiaroscuro — the interplay of light and shade — in the sculptural folds of the drapery to equally foreboding effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
She took her blue water bottle down to the beach and sat in the shade of a rock with her legs in the water.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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It embeds a photo of Queen Camilla and the prime minister's wife Marie-France van Heel visiting a school in Antigua, both of whom are wearing different shades of blue.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
Elsewhere across Italy, different shades of green and brown reveal variations in vegetation, farming activity, and land cover.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Playing versions of the Chaplins, the Holbrooke sisters share shades of classic Herzog characters while being quite unlike any of the eccentrics he’s brought to life before.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Unlike the grand ivory buildings in the Fair’s Court of Honor, these walls were painted in garish shades of red and bronze as though colored by a premonition of fire.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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When the next map is drawn, the same areas are shaded even darker.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
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
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
Sometimes, I even went back after a show and shaded letters to make it look like calligraphy.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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The menus would be illustrated by hand, which sounds charming until you’ve spent an entire afternoon trying to get the shading right on a watercolor artichoke.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
After some plants evolved leaves, they began shading out shorter specimens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
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
Captain Reed stood beside him, tall and lanky, with his hat shading his ocean-blue eyes from the sun.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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