gloaming
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At the point where gloaming meets night, we also lose the horizon line, so necessary for navigation by the stars.
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
Two hours later in the California gloaming, List secured an even better treat for little Ryann List.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2022
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
The sky is gloaming, and the waves of the sea are as thin as petals of nightshade as they swirl over the road to Mont-Saint-Michel.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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