twilight
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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
Age suggests Salah is entering the twilight of his career, but there is evidence he still has plenty to offer.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Tiny Spanish village gets ready for rare double twilight.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 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
Glowing in the twilight, Trey stepped out from between two redbud trees.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
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
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
Never had rainy days enveloped the world in such languishing violet twilights.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
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Words from the 4th of July Songbook
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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