twilight
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And that twilight zone has serious costs—a fact that Thomas ignores but Jackson rightly highlights.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 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
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
Watched and photographed by a host of humans, the annual migration of the sandhill crane, once nearly extinct, begins from an Indiana wetland in the twilight of late fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It was one of those warm, full-moon nights when it’s so bright it’s more like twilight in the evening than nighttime.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Because of the longevity of their careers, too many people will remember them mostly in their twilights, which is a shame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
And there have been others who won as role players in the twilights of their careers, such as Gary Payton and Jason Kidd.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 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
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
Often, as I sat under the apple tree by the door, of twilights, I heard the sweet mellow music of the flute.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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