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Adjective
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The data follows the lackluster August jobs report that helped fuel investor hope that the Federal Reserve is all but assured to lower benchmark interest rates at its policy meeting later this month.—
Brian Evans,
CNBC,
7 Sep. 2025 -
Running back Rhamondre Stevenson delivered a lackluster chip block on the strip-sack, but Campbell shouldered the blame when speaking with reporters postgame.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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The bidirectional vehicle, with an identical front and rear, is also packed with sensors, including eight laser lidars; 10 radar units; 18 cameras; eight microphones (to hear emergency vehicles); and four thermal cameras to detect humans and animals in murky weather, dim lighting and fog.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Inside the fortune cookie factory, the room was dim, fragrant with warm vanilla, and packed with antique machinery.—
Maggie Downs,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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Over the weekend, around 16,000 people paid their respects to the designer at his funeral chamber at the Armani Teatro designed by Tadao Ando, filled with white flowers and paper lanterns on the floor in a diagonal grid formation dimly lit up the darkened venue.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Olsen kept her glam simple for the evening and opted for a terracotta blush on her cheeks and a dusky mauve gloss on her lips.—
Starr Bowenbank,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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By tracing a genealogy of conjure, Stewart also seeks to reveal many obscured contributions of Black women to American history.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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How different this trip would have been in the pre-GPS era, when the obscured road sign at one intersection would likely have sent me off track.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
19 Apr. 2018
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The land, unfenced, abuts a bald blackened hillside that must be public land.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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In its time open, fueled by fans of its blackened mahi and buttery lobster rolls, owner Mike Smith has expanded his footprint, moving into a larger stall in the popular food hall — which has allowed for a menu expansion, as well.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
6 Dec. 2022
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“Unbright.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbright. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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