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gloaming

[gloh-ming] / ˈgloʊ mɪŋ /


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The curious light of gloaming makes the landscape alien to us as color bleeds slowly away.

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

So imagine everyone’s delight when Bennifer reemerged from the gloaming after Lopez split with fiance Alex Rodriguez.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2022

“In Gates’s telling,” noted our reviewer, Jon Meacham, the Black church “shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth.”

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022

Then the bows of three boats began to materialize out of the gloaming, just beyond the railroad bridge.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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