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Recent Examples of dark age
Is Trump leading the U.S. into an economic dark age?
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Mike Patton, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
If this is the future of artificial intelligence, the AI era is going to be a dark age indeed.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
With most of the studio’s fabled animators having retired and productions being scaled back, Disney entered a dark age of animation marked by edgier stories and alienated audiences.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
In his Foundation series, Asimov wrote about a hero who must prevent humanity from being thrown into a long dark age after a massive galactic empire collapses.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Mike Patton, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
If this is the future of artificial intelligence, the AI era is going to be a dark age indeed.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
With most of the studio’s fabled animators having retired and productions being scaled back, Disney entered a dark age of animation marked by edgier stories and alienated audiences.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
In his Foundation series, Asimov wrote about a hero who must prevent humanity from being thrown into a long dark age after a massive galactic empire collapses.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dark age
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Two children watch him from behind while, in one sliver of the background on the top left side of the picture, a blazing red sunset overruns the sky.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Head to Tokyo Tower at sunset for the classic, beautiful view of the city.—
Lauren Schuster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Apr. 2026
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The development solves the long-standing issues of material degradation and leakage (crossover) by re-engineering the iron complex at the molecular level.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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Dark glass bottles protect the oil from light degradation, which breaks down the compounds responsible for those benefits.—
Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Apr. 2026
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Over the last decade, the parish began to lose these buildings to age, mold and deterioration.—
Desiree Mathurin
April 28,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Swiss Eugen Bleuler, a follower of Kraepelin, replaced the term dementia praecox, which implied hopeless deterioration, with the softer term schizophrenia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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Becoming secure Having a secure attachment style looks like being comfortable with closeness and the ebbs and flows of relationships without feeling threatened or deeply wounded.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2026
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And from there, the rest of the show flowed, with little ebb.—
Theoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Apr. 2026
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The renewable share of China’s energy mix is expanding at a rapid clip, with the aim to one day eclipse coal, even as China continues to lean heavily on the polluting fossil fuel to electrify its economy.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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Traverso captured a striking image of the ring-of-fire eclipse that was later shared widely by the European Space Agency.—
Ryan French,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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Out next month, Star follows the rise of two fictional musical acts—a pop star, Ashley, and Siren8, a teen idol group—and the gradual devolution of fan admiration into obsession, and eventually, violence.—
Jenny Tinghui Zhang,
Vogue,
24 Mar. 2026
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Several factors beyond the democratization of the presidential nominating process have driven the devolution of the Democratic and Republican parties.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
22 Feb. 2026
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Some lambasted the degeneracy of the modern language.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Eric Swalwell, a prominent Democratic House member and a front-runner in the race for California governor, had his political career blown up by allegations of degeneracy and abject stupidity.—
Michelle Cottle,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The research team noted that fatty degeneration of the muscle could be clearly seen on MRIs, as streaks of fat replace muscle fibers.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the degeneration of nerve cells, which become damaged and die, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.—
Mason Leib,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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