dark age

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Recent Examples of dark age Exiled by Emperor Cleon XII (a magnificent Lee Pace) to the remote planet of Terminus, Seldon plans to establish a Foundation dedicated to shortening the coming dark age with his disciples, including Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell). David Faris, theweek, 24 Apr. 2024 Their report, published late last year in the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, found no evidence that the inverter invasion is plunging civilization into a dystopian dark age. IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024 This could make October 7 the beginning of a dark age in Israel’s history—one characterized by more and growing violence. Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024 There’s no evidence that inverters are plunging civilization into a dystopian dark age. IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dark age
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dark age
Noun
  • Making one last run to a Super Bowl win would be a great way to ride off into the sunset for one of the most productive tight ends in NFL history.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Naturalists in the 19th and 20th centuries documented how pairs of various bird species dutifully toiled together building a nest, protecting the eggs, mutually feeding each other and their offspring, before eventually flying off into the sunset together.
    Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This is, in part, about the degradation, devaluation, and replacement of writers.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Soil degradation, water scarcity, and climate volatility have become immediate operational threats.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The deterioration of market breadth indicators going back to the fourth quarter of 2024 has provided a fantastic confirmation of the bearish conditions affecting the major equity averages.
    David Keller, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The results are rising food prices, unsafe food, and the deterioration of our environment.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Real Madrid will go into their Champions League quarter-final first leg away to Arsenal at their lowest ebb this season.
    Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The number of players in the organization who could thrive during their inexpensive entry-level deals is at a low ebb.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Although eclipse glasses were essential to see any other part of the eclipse, totality was strictly a naked eyesight.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The exact timing of the eclipse depends on your location.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Policies designed to increase competitive pressures on public schools—vouchers to allow low-income families to send their children to private schools, the devolution of more latitude to state and local authorities, and the expansion of charter schools—are the right place to begin.
    Arthur C. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2017
  • And as Abundance explores in detail, the devolution of systems to local control produces policies that can be locally popular but nationally disastrous.
    Kelsey Piper, Vox, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But only a cynic would assert that his decision to appoint a Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets, not to mention the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, was an attempt to justify his memecoin degeneracy.
    Sean Lee, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Another consequence of vote-threatening public discontent with mass chemical slavery and the abject squalor, the thieving, the degeneracy, and the organized crime that comes with it, has been the recriminalization of drugs in Oregon this September.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, a brain disorder caused by degeneration of the brain's frontal lobe, comes nearly a year after Willis' family confirmed the movie icon, now 67, was stepping away from acting due to an aphasia diagnosis.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Following his retirement from acting in 2022 due to an aphasia diagnosis, Willis' family revealed in February 2023 that the actor had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a brain disorder caused by degeneration of the brain's frontal lobe.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025

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“Dark age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dark%20age. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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