crepuscular
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Nightjars are crepuscular ground-nesting birds meaning they emerge at twilight and can be seen hunting for food at dusk and dawn.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
The catalog’s full-page reproductions, in spectacular colors or crepuscular monochromes, are frequently transporting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The study, published last month in the journal Biological Conservation, found that Southland mountain lions became more nocturnal and less crepuscular — i.e., active at dusk or dawn — in popular recreation areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
The first, for bass flute and electronics, establishes a crepuscular atmosphere with spare, breathy gestures that grow more ragged, as if on the run.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Ben asked when they had broken out of Ravenel County and in a hauntingly crepuscular light were shooting across a causeway where the locks and sluices of an old rice plantation were still visible.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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