dark age

collocation in English

meaningsofdarkandage

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dark
adjective
uk
/dɑːk/us
/dɑːrk/
with little or ...
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age
noun
uk
/eɪdʒ/us
/eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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(Definition ofdarkandagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdark age

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I believe that the world is moving into a verydarkage.
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This consensus is a particularly unpleasant 1970s consensus, from adarkagewhen fundamentals were not addressed.
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I have a feeling that tonight's debate and this period in our parliamentary history will be remembered as adarkageof nationalism.
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If we start to define humanity according to our wants and perceptions rather than on objective criteria, we are heading for a verydarkageindeed.
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While the inner cities collapse in guerrilla warfare, adarkageof superstition dawns.
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The termdarkageis not restricted to the discipline of history.
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Our lineage is an open mandala for the manifestation of pointed instruction for ourdarkage.
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She argues that this decay threatens to create adarkageunless the trends are reversed.
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They pose as champions of progress yet their fixation with multiculturalism is dragging us into a newdarkage.
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We have entered a newdarkageof injustice and it is frightening that we are overwhelmed by it.
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The 2000s has been adarkagefor the club as they have only won one state title.
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While desperate supporters started preparing for adarkage, the club surprised friend and foe in the 2007 summer transfer window.
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It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered anotherdarkagecharacterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics.
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The old world gone, a newdarkagedawns and humanity's shrinking population is reduced, due to catastrophe and domestic failure, immeasurably.
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The novel takes place on a formerly advanced civilization world which has now been reduced to adarkageby the attacks of demons known as' corelings'.
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