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as in darkened
being without light or without much light
a dim, windowless room in the basement of the house
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as in matte
lacking a surface luster or gloss
over time, exposure to ultraviolet light will make bright pigments turn dim
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as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
have only a dim knowledge of the subject
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as in slow
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily
our dog is kind of dim, but very sweet-natured
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as in to obscure
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
the storm clouds dimmed our view of the city from the airplane
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Mason Leib, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024
The linen shade creates a dim, soft stream of light that instantly cozies up a room.
—Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Like the stall walls have thickened and the ceiling has lowered and the light has dimmed.
—Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
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Despite the obvious fact that dim lights ease relaxation and bright lights help to wake the body, the CDC notes that there are other benefits.
—Mason Leib, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024
The linen shade creates a dim, soft stream of light that instantly cozies up a room.
—Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
Verb
But as Truman gradually learns the truth behind his reality, the brightness of his face dims.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Like the stall walls have thickened and the ceiling has lowered and the light has dimmed.
—Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
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The texture is airy and buttery, while the finish is natural without being completely matte.Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2024
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This specific limited edition is crafted from shiny and matte burgundy porosus crocodile (estimate: $33,400-$40,100).Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2024
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But Walker’s assurances were vague and his numbers fuzzy.Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2024
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With a few terrible exceptions, Harris and Walz have been purposely vague about their ideas for America’s future.Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
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Big tech is experiencing its slowest earnings growth in six quarters, and the industry hasn’t been immune from mass layoffs, which have surpassed 130,000 cuts this year, including 3,765 across the sector in September, and 528 from DropBox alone announced earlier this week.Alena Botros, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
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Chargers Chargers take Jim Harbaugh’s sometimes comical words very seriously Oct. 25, 2024 Still, major colleges were slow to believe McConkey could be a legitimate prospect.Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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The crowd trickled back to their cars, deep time obscured by darkness.Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
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But this focus on labor obscures the fact that slavery also represented enormous wealth that was extraordinarily liquid: an enslaved person represented cash that could be forced to work, forced to breed, forced to relocate.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Nov. 2024
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But now, his band appears to be… dying, with three members announcing their departures in messages that offered dark hints of new developments.Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Whenever one filled up, the park rangers replaced it with a new notebook and took the old one back to headquarters, where they’ve all been kept for years inside a dark cabinet in a back room.John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024
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Some of the stereo panning in the music is faint, but the effective stereo separation of the left and right channels helps highlight these subtleties.PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Oct. 2024
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The ability to see the shooting stars depends on clear nighttime skies, as a bright waning gibbous moon moves between full and last quarter phases, outshining more faint meteors and reducing the number of meteors visible to sky-gazers.Greg Wehner, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2024
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Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
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Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
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The experience of being a Black foreigner in a country governed by its racial gradients darkened his view of Kenya.Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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If artificial intelligence could be used to brighten a person’s mood, it could probably be used for darkening a person’s personality, too.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Dim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dim. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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