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twilight

[twahy-lahyt] / ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt /


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“An officer could simply invent an accusation of criminality, leaving the green-card holder trapped in a bureaucratic twilight zone for years before they have a chance to rebut the accusation at a hearing,” Mark writes.

From Slate Jun. 25, 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

The show started unusually on time, just moments past 7:30 p.m., at peak twilight.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

A clear view of the western sky will help observers catch Mercury before it disappears into the twilight glow.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2026

We walked back jubilant that day in the coppery twilight already edged with black, like ashes around dying embers.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

Our sunsets may hang on in the sky like a painting dangling from a nail, not for us the lingering twilights, the “heures bleues” of elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 18, 2022

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

Nor dance nor song Allured me, nor the pleasant days of youth And twilights 'mid the vines.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir




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