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as in dark
a time or place of little or no light
a robber lying unseen in the murk
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Recent Examples of murk
With an eye that’s sensitive enough to see a bumblebee in lunar orbit, the telescope will peer into the primordial murk from which stars, galaxies, and planets emerged, piercing the darkness that has occluded the gaze of other great observatories.
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Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 25 Dec. 2021
Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 25 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for murk
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Rome embodies a conundrum of dark and light that is the South.Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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Close just had to replicate the tiny squares of darks and lights on his canvas, like following a map.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Doug Brown, director of stewardship at the Berkshire Natural Resources Council, a nonprofit that maintains nearly 14,000 acres of wild land and over 60 miles of trails in this western Massachusetts county, stares into the distant haze, shielding his eyes from the sun.Sophie Ungerleider, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024
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The best conditions to see the night sky will be with clear skies without clouds or haze.Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024
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Instead of gentle concentric circles, gleaming finishes, or a mesmerizing light show, the ProArt P16 meets us with inky blackness.PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Oct. 2024
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The Mid-Credits Scene — the King in Black The central plot of The Last Dance revolves around Venom trying to stop the creator of the symbiotes, Knull (Andy Serkis), from escaping his celestial prison and returning all of existence to the Void, the blackness that predates the universe.Richard Newby, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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Neptune direct removes the fog from your sixth house of health habits and work dynamics.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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As the sun and Mercury align, the fog in your mind parts.USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Test Fire Simulation will put visitors beneath a rocket engine and into a simulation that includes sounds, lights and a cooling mist.Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
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Steve Jobs would come at a journalist like the rain in Buenaventura, aggressively pitching his message; Cook envelopes his interlocutors in a gentle mist and confides awed assessments of his company’s efforts.Steven Levy, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
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The park, which is now recognized for its inky black skies, has long protected a sprawling system of caves and passages that offer their own brand of darkness.Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
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Set in the long period of winter darkness in Alaska, the mystic crime drama puts Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Detective Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) to work investigating the frozen deaths of seven men at a research facility.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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The open cluster Westerlund 1 is located roughly 12,000 light-years away, residing behind a huge interstellar cloud of gas and dust.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2024
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Tips on how to view astronomical events: The best conditions to see the night sky will be with clear skies without clouds or haze.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
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Take your pick from black to mocha to crisp, winter white.Taylor Jean Stephan, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
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Flaunt this fun, floral style, or opt for their best-selling classic black.Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 31 Jan. 2023
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“Murk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murk. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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