sunset

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Summer Fields was painted around 1961 and captures the "dying sunset spilling across the corner of a Catterline field".

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The light softened toward sunset, an evening echo of the same violet sky that hovered over Julian at the start of the day.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Around sunset on Sept. 22, six days after Cynthia was last seen, a rural landowner was walking her dog on a private dirt road 40 miles south of Arlington when she noticed a foul odor.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Manguillier prefers to do his metal detecting after sunset, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

From sunrise to sunset humans sowed seeds, watered plants, plucked weeds from the ground and led sheep to prime pastures.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari