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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

And if from a speculative angle the Marxian tradition has shaded too heavily the economic facts, it was at least a plausible and practical exaggeration.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter