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twilight

[twahy-lahyt] / ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt /


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As twilight settled on a hillside by the river near the eastern Ukrainian front, two soldiers exchanged wedding vows during a Slavic ritual honouring ancestors and fallen warriors.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

Age suggests Salah is entering the twilight of his career, but there is evidence he still has plenty to offer.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Tiny Spanish village gets ready for rare double twilight.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

So if James wanted to spend his twilight chasing an elusive fifth championship, the single smartest thing he could do was take a pay cut to join a ready-made contender.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

The sun set, and the woods grew darker, but before the last of the twilight was gone the moon rose.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

And there have been others who won as role players in the twilights of their careers, such as Gary Payton and Jason Kidd.

From Seattle Times Jun. 26, 2023

And so many kids spend their twilights there still hoping and shooting and trying again until the night falls.

From Salon Mar. 20, 2023

Our sunsets may hang on in the sky like a painting dangling from a nail, not for us the lingering twilights, the “heures bleues” of elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 18, 2022

Harris won a Tony Award — her fifth — for a performance that Kerr called a “generous, spiny, proud, bemusedly defiant, subtly yielding evocation of Emily Dickinson’s mornings, twilights, and sometimes busy midnights.”

From Washington Post Dec. 11, 2019

The evening twilights are far redder than with us.

From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz




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