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  • noun Plural form of dark.

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Examples

  • Lowering contrast often means darkening the lights and lightening the darks, which is the opposite of what you do when you increase contrast.

    The Photoshop Blog 2010

  • Lowering contrast often means darkening the lights and lightening the darks, which is the opposite of what you do when you increase contrast.

    The Photoshop Blog 2010

  • & violence (usually against women & "darks" - but sometimes children).

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • UlulaniPit: I don't think you can call 'em "darks" anymore; you had "clothes of color".

    Use Cat Litter To Save Your Doused Phone | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • This is not my genre, so I could be all wrong, but I found the use of so many "darks" confusing: dark sorcery, dark power, dark magics, growing darkness.

    HH Com 105 Miss Snark 2006

  • Farmers, shepherds, ostlers, what you will that is respectable, these Alfriston men might be by day and when the moon was bright; but when the "darks" came round they were smugglers every one.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • Almost nothing is true white, and rarely anything is true black, so complementary colours come in handy for 'darks' and 'coloured lighting' useful for highlights.

    Popular in the last 8 hours 2009

  • "darks" taken if ambient temperature changes by .5 of a degree.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • And also, even when you get to Italy, we start playing with lights and darks.

    TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 2ND | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009

  • The riders poured into the courtyard as moonlight glinted off lacquered steal plate colored in the darks reds of Maril.

    G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

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