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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

A twilight stroll through “Carved” at Descanso Gardens is like walking through a Halloween fairy tale, as exquisitely designed pumpkins surround and dazzle us in glowing installations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The fight arrives later than anybody wanted, with both in the twilight of their careers, but for years British boxing's biggest heavyweight rivalry seemed destined to remain a story of what might have been.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

Flies clustered over the roof—millions of them, covering every remaining panel and plunging us into twilight.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

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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