- present participle of shade.
shading
Americannoun
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shadings
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a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
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the act of a person or thing that shades.
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the representation of the different values of color or light and dark in a painting or drawing.
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For Hartnett, shading in a complete picture, warts and all, is essential to making a character believable.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
In the rush for everyone to claim tech-company status, we lost a lot of good shading in many iconic logos: Warner Bros.,
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Research on overheating in homes shows that shading and ventilation can be important passive cooling strategies: reducing indoor heat without mechanical cooling.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Her keen shading of dynamics served two purposes: It made potentially static music engaging, and it lent drama to a narrative arc shaped largely by biography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Nighthand appeared behind them, shading his eyes with his huge hand.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
“Coyote” offers intimate shadings on a story that will be familiar to fans of literary biography or anyone who has ever attended a 12-step recovery program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
But instead of those earlier films’ crime-genre shadings, Fukada now develops the more direct emotional stakes of domestic tragedy, and the sad, strange pathways that emerge from dealing with the unfathomable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
Hall’s performance is remarkable, full of shadings and intimations of significant emotional depths.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
With jolly maximalism and Shrinky Dinks shadings, this is a book that invites children to take off their thinking caps, relax and revel in pure silliness.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
Out of desperation I’d included some of my old Biology drawings, in hard lead pencil with colored shadings.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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