gloaming
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At the point where gloaming meets night, we also lose the horizon line, so necessary for navigation by the stars.
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
“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
There are exceptions, of course, to the rout of big old trees, including the old growth in the gloaming of the Pacific Northwest’s rainforests.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2020
Only a glimpse, as through a tall window, could be seen of the great valley in the gloaming below.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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