twilight
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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
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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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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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