twilight
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It’s 1821 in Alta California, in the twilight of Spanish rule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
“An officer could simply invent an accusation of criminality, leaving the green-card holder trapped in a bureaucratic twilight zone for years before they have a chance to rebut the accusation at a hearing,” Mark writes.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 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
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
Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
It was a corner much beloved by school-boys of our acquaintance with Saturday afternoons or long twilights upon their hands.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada
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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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