Jesse Andrews

My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some passages from it just to figure out who these characters are, how they talk. And I have a dim sense of what it's about and where it's going to go, but I know that's going to change, too.

American Novelist

George Edward Moore

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

English Philosopher

Felix Adler

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

German Educator

Gillian Jacobs

It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

American Actress

Tierra Whack

You know, I'm willing to dim my light so that somebody else can shine because, like, we all have to find our inner lights, and shine in one world.

American Musician

Jagmeet Singh

It's heartbreaking to think that the joy of building a family is being dimmed by the economic squeeze young people are feeling.

Canadian Lawyer

Jenna Wortham

I like to dim the lights and talk about the ghosts I've known and invite other people to tell me their stories.

American Journalist

Thomas Carlyle

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Scottish Philosopher

William James

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

American Philosopher

Israel Adesanya

Look, I can't dim my shine just because some people feel uncomfortable.

Nigerian Athlete

Use 'dim' to describe a space with low light, affecting visibility.

Visual Clarity

'Dim' helps create a mood or atmosphere in a description, often secretive or intimate.

Atmosphere Setting

Use 'dim' as a verb when lights are being lowered in brightness.

Action of Lights

'Dim' conveys a gradual decrease in light or quality, not an abrupt change.

Gradual Change

Use 'dim' to indicate doubt about a future event or outcome.

Expressing Doubt

'Dim' in this context is informal and often implies a personal judgment.

Informal Judgment

Use 'dim' when memories are unclear or fading in one's mind.

Clarity of Memory

Calling someone 'dim' can be insulting, suggesting they are not intelligent.

Insulting Connotation

'Dim' as a comment on intelligence is casual and can be derogatory in nature.

Colloquial Informality

 setting the cosmic distance scale and measuring distances cosmologically not only that we can also measure the periodic dimming of stars that occurs when a planet orbits them and the orbit takes it within our line of sight and if we're actually going to observe life around another planet which I think we're on the eve of doing

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 It's the same shade of gray, but take it away again, and it looks different. So what's happening here is that the brain is using its prior expectations built deeply into the circuits of the visual cortex that a cast shadow dims the appearance of a surface, so that we see B as lighter than it really is.

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 they are not silvery, like they're often illustrated. Mirrors, technically speaking, are just a tiny, tiny, little bit green. You can demonstrate this by putting two mirrors next to each other, facing so they reflect back and forth forever. Look down that infinite reflection, and it will get dimmer,

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 which helps it determine the direction of the water’s flow. This way, a squid can sense an oncoming predator in even the dimmest waters. Aware of the threat, a squid can then mask itself from a predator. Squid skin contains thousands of tiny organs called chromatophores,

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 published in conservation biology narrates the institute's video Vampyroteuthis has very large eyes because it lives about half a mile deep in the ocean where the light is very dim we took these pictures from a deep diving robotic submarine and you can see

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 Still, he shined just as brightly as Nanahuatl. But since he had shown far less bravery and much more pride, one of the gods picked up a rabbit and tossed it in his face, dimming his light. But the fifth world still wasn’t truly established.

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 Kuiper belt responsive to others orbits covered with craters and an over large heart churning with nitrogen ice fainter than the dimmer star we have to work to see your surface mysterious trio hidden out of easy sight science still know so

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 Her visibility may have dimmed since, but her legacy endures. Privileging facts over opinions, and patience over shortcuts, she made evidence-based medicine the foundation of reforms that continue to protect people today.

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 is sometimes used as an emergency treatment. Some bipolar patients reject treatment because they're afraid it will dim their emotions and destroy their creativity. But modern psychiatry is actively trying to avoid that.

What is bipolar...

 and find prey in the dark. Although there's a common misconception that bats are blind, in truth, all species of bats have sight. And some have even adapted large eyes to see better in dim lighting.

Dim

Not bright or clear.

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Make or become less bright or clear.

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Unlikely to be true or occur.

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Not remembering things clearly.

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Used to describe someone who is not smart.

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