shade
noun
the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
has shaded
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present perfectof shade (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But Araki has shaded in the margins masterfully, with vivid supporting turns by Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs and the now-ubiquitous Charli XCX.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Well, for one thing, courtesy has shaded into comedy.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2018
Rather, she has shaded her views or shifted her tone and rhetoric: the kind of trimming that politicians routinely do and Fiorina, running as a blunt-spoken political outsider —regularly condemns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2015
By this point, Ackroyd's lively tale has shaded into an invigorating meditation on the changelessness, after no matter how many eons, of human nature and its uneasiness with the unfamiliar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The beauty that in youth he wooed, Is beauty still, unfaded; The brow of ever placid mood No churlish grief has shaded.
From Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell by Charlotte Brontë
