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twilight

[twahy-lahyt] / ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt /


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A twilight stroll through “Carved” at Descanso Gardens is like walking through a Halloween fairy tale, as exquisitely designed pumpkins surround and dazzle us in glowing installations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

For southern Canada, much of the US and northern Mexico, day becomes twilight and breathing outdoors without masks becomes increasingly difficult.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Together, these changes led to the end of what Mr. White calls “the amalgamated city and its possibilities,” and the twilight of the first free black New Yorkers’ moment in the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The shadow cast by the alignment of Sun and Moon creates a strange twilight during which temperatures drop, shadows appear at strange angles and some animals go to sleep.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

One of the knocks on LIV was that so many of its big names were in the twilights of their careers.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 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 a corner much beloved by school-boys of our acquaintance with Saturday afternoons or long twilights upon their hands.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge


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