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gloaming

[gloh-ming] / ˈgloʊ mɪŋ /


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The curious light of gloaming makes the landscape alien to us as color bleeds slowly away.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

I’m more of an evening than a morning person, so this arrangement makes viewing Mercury easier for me, and I’m always delighted when I can catch it in the gloaming.

From Scientific American Aug. 17, 2023

Here’s to their eternal gloaming on the brightest Seattle summer days, to their pull tabs and to their stink of late-night desperation.

From Seattle Times Dec. 25, 2021

The gray gloaming and hallucinatory mists envelop a spare and savage landscape, with the witches shape shifting into three black birds.

From New York Times Dec. 4, 2021

Only a glimpse, as through a tall window, could be seen of the great valley in the gloaming below.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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