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twilight

[twahy-lahyt] / ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt /


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And that twilight zone has serious costs—a fact that Thomas ignores but Jackson rightly highlights.

From Slate Jun. 23, 2026

Down in the backrooms twilight zone, there’s a glitchy-looking wall splashed over with distorted “McKee Road” signs.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto let a day’s stroll linger into profundity, the twilight dimming and human connection brewing in all its possibilities.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

Should I find a wife for my twilight years?

From MarketWatch Apr. 17, 2026

Mossflower country shimmered gently in a peaceful haze, bathing delicately at each dew-laden dawn, blossoming through high sunny noontides, languishing in each crimson-tinted twilight that heralded the soft darkness of June nights.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Because of the longevity of their careers, too many people will remember them mostly in their twilights, which is a shame.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2023

And there have been others who won as role players in the twilights of their careers, such as Gary Payton and Jason Kidd.

From Seattle Times Jun. 26, 2023

And so many kids spend their twilights there still hoping and shooting and trying again until the night falls.

From Salon Mar. 20, 2023

Harris won a Tony Award — her fifth — for a performance that Kerr called a “generous, spiny, proud, bemusedly defiant, subtly yielding evocation of Emily Dickinson’s mornings, twilights, and sometimes busy midnights.”

From Washington Post Dec. 11, 2019

It was twilight, one of those sapphire twilights of early spring; the gas had not been lighted and the fire had died away to a glow.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton




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