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
They were both in their 30s and sporting logic dictated that the twilight of their careers was fast approaching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
The show started unusually on time, just moments past 7:30 p.m., at peak twilight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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
Over the water, the air turned purple with twilight.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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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
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
In these spring days, as time passed, the mornings were earlier and the twilights later.
From The Childhood of Rome by Lamprey, Louise
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