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twilight

[twahy-lahyt] / ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt /


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As twilight settled on a hillside by the river near the eastern Ukrainian front, two soldiers exchanged wedding vows during a Slavic ritual honouring ancestors and fallen warriors.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 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

The show started unusually on time, just moments past 7:30 p.m., at peak twilight.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

The air was musty with far-off bonfires, sharp with the edge of a twilight chill.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

Thou hast thy crocodiles: on rotten logs Afloat, the turtles swarm and bask: the frogs, When come the pale, cold twilights of the spring, Like distant sleigh-bells through the meadows ring.

From The Two Twilights by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers




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