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twilight

[twahy-lahyt] / ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt /


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And that twilight zone has serious costs—a fact that Thomas ignores but Jackson rightly highlights.

From Slate Jun. 23, 2026

The show started unusually on time, just moments past 7:30 p.m., at peak twilight.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

A clear view of the western sky will help observers catch Mercury before it disappears into the twilight glow.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2026

“The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” Paul McCartney’s twenty-seventh post-Beatles studio album, is the portrait of an artist in his twilight, a rich assortment of storytelling and nostalgia befitting the world’s greatest living songwriter.

From Salon May 12, 2026

Mossflower country shimmered gently in a peaceful haze, bathing delicately at each dew-laden dawn, blossoming through high sunny noontides, languishing in each crimson-tinted twilight that heralded the soft darkness of June nights.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

One of the knocks on LIV was that so many of its big names were in the twilights of their careers.

From Seattle Times Dec. 8, 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 suns were beauteous in those twilights warm.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles




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