as in gloominess
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Noun
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Rather than a sense of doom and gloom, Chelsea left Newcastle on Sunday with high hopes that their target for the Premier League season can be achieved.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
13 May 2025 -
This era of uncertainty doesn’t have to create a sentiment of doom and gloom.—
Michael Della Penna,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Flying your favorite spacecraft is as simple as plopping down in the captain’s chair to engage in some hairy dogfights and clandestine patrols over strange worlds or the inky cosmic blackness as the gameplay shifts from a standard FPS to a third-person perspective.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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Perry and crew experienced a few minutes of weightlessness and got to see Earth against the blackness of space.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Both try to exercise in semidarkness.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
1 Sep. 2020
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She [Daria] looks at me and smiles in the semidarkness, a calm, shy smile, full of love.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
3 Dec. 2021
Noun
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American craft brewers helped rescue from obscurity the saison, a bubbly, crisp, gently spiced beer.—
Peter Rowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2025
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Al-Sheikh has risen from obscurity to quasi-royal prominence.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Somberness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/somberness. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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