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- verb Present participle of
dim . - noun The process of becoming
dim .
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Examples
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Scientists are discovering that global dimming is responsible for droughts in several parts of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa.
Amarnath Amarasingam: What Is Global Dimming? Amarnath Amarasingam 2010
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Scientists are discovering that global dimming is responsible for droughts in several parts of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa.
Amarnath Amarasingam: What Is Global Dimming? Amarnath Amarasingam 2010
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Star dimming is for the birds, we are so out of here.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Vacuum Diagrams - Stephen Baxter Blue Tyson 2008
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Philips 'new Eco TV line has built-in dimming features that are designed to save power without compromising picture quality.
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Philips 'new Eco TV line has built-in dimming features that are designed to save power without compromising picture quality.
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Star dimming is for the birds, we are so out of here.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Secret History - Stephen Baxter Blue Tyson 2008
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The dimming is a nearly worlwide effect, and our government invested 25 million dollars into a study in the Pacific comparing the dimming in the north under the Asian brown cloud with the south where the air is still clean.
Think Progress » FACT CHECK: National Review’s Cover Story Distorts Facts On Global Warming 2006
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His very first meeting with the King of Bulgaria showed a certain dimming of the monarchic tradition, a certain muting of martial music as it had been heard through history.
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His very first meeting with the King of Bulgaria showed a certain dimming of the monarchic tradition, a certain muting of martial music as it had been heard through history.
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Global dimming is the source of George Will’s specious claim that scientists were warning us about global cooling in the 1970s.
Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’ 2006
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