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twilight

[twahy-lahyt] / ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt /


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Ms. Smialek suggests that Maria Edgeworth has fallen into the twilight of history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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

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

The abode of Sleep is near the black country of the Cimmerians, in a deep valley where the sun never shines and dusky twilight wraps all things in shadows.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

L.A. got under my skin, with its barely contained chaos and lingering twilights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 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

The suns were beauteous in those twilights warm.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire


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