crepuscular
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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
Jared A. Sayeg’s crepuscular lighting and Kate Bergh’s humanizing costumes lend contrast and texture to the world-building scenic design.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
The catalog’s full-page reproductions, in spectacular colors or crepuscular monochromes, are frequently transporting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Horns enter and the song begins to feel like a futuristic take on the crepuscular, narcotic blues of Mingus’s “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.”
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
In the crepuscular light, he is connected again, bound to his father and, through him, to all the family back in Zundert.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
