twilight
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“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
Should I find a wife for my twilight years?
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
He was deep in the twilight of his life when de Gaulle became prime minister in 1958 as a result of the Algerian crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Nightjars are crepuscular ground-nesting birds meaning they emerge at twilight and can be seen hunting for food at dusk and dawn.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
In part, the bonding occurred because the correspondence of their twilight years permitted both sages to confront and argue out their different notions of the history they had lived and made together.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing twilight
Words from the 4th of July Songbook
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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