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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shadow is a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when defining or describing what a shadow is in a broader context.
Example: "In the context of light and perception, a shadow is a dark area produced by an object blocking light."
Alternatives: "a shadow represents a" or "a shadow can be defined as a".
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The subject of Marshall's painting is a woman with skin shaded gray to black, holding a palette; behind her, like a shadow, is a color-by-number outline of herself.
(According to the city's building codes, a shadow is "a circumstance in which a building or other built structure blocks the sun from the land"—not the same thing as shade, which is caused by trees).
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A shadow is an object but it does not possess the right type of conserved quantities; for example, a shadow cannot possess energy or momentum.
Shadow is a valentine to her, and a heartening one.
"Orson's Shadow" is a backstage story, but a satisfying one.
"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow" is a Swedish proverb that speaks to my growing concern over the microscopic eggs I relinquished 15 years ago.
But status is not always measured by current account; shadow is a word used a lot of late and the one Messi casts is long.
Birdman is a super-ego, and his shadow is a constant, nagging companion.
Prevention of such a shadow is important to an open-water fish often living close to the surface and unprotected from all sides.
They lack definition, substance, but there is a causal relationship between a person and their shadow — specifically, a shadow is the result of a material interaction between a person and a source of light.
As a result, a shadow is observed in some images (Fig. 3).
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