twilight
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The fight arrives later than anybody wanted, with both in the twilight of their careers, but for years British boxing's biggest heavyweight rivalry seemed destined to remain a story of what might have been.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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
We decide to go that evening, in the twilight before dark, when most people will be hurrying to their homes and the nurses are in their bedroom.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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
Before your time or mine, there were many twilights, many dawns, and it is not without reason that the movement of rotation is enforced upon the heavens.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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