Definition of "shadows" []

• Plural form of shadow. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shadow. (verb)

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• "Lurking in the shadows is a more sobering statistic: Not much more than half of college students -- some 57 percent -- earn a bachelor's degree in six years."
• "And in the shadows is the isolated young publisher who pays more attention to his prized basset hound, Schopenhauer, than to the fate of his family’s quirky newspaper."
• "Pope Benedict XVI in his New Year's homily Sunday praised young people as key to securing a future of hope despite what he called "shadows on the horizon of today's world.""