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dimness

noun as in darkness

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At the 66th annual Grammy Awards, where Combs’ version of the song was nominated for best country solo performance, it could not be clearer who was driving as those telltale chords rang through the initial dimness.

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Fifteen dancers sit in dimness, supervised by some kind of overseer.

"When a planet transits, meaning it moves between our line of sight and the star it orbits, light from the star passes through the planet's atmosphere, getting absorbed by the various gases present. By capturing a spectrum of the star -- passing the light through an instrument called a spectrograph, akin to passing it through a prism -- we observe a rainbow, measuring the brightness of different constituent colors. Varied areas of brightness or dimness in the spectrum reveal the gases absorbing light in the planet's atmosphere."

In the dimness, something is spinning.

After a few moments, her eyes adjusted to the dimness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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