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twilight

[twahy-lahyt] / ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt /


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It 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

Tiny Spanish village gets ready for rare double twilight.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

So if James wanted to spend his twilight chasing an elusive fifth championship, the single smartest thing he could do was take a pay cut to join a ready-made contender.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Shelves full of glass jars boasted twilight stars.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

And there is ardent, living peace—its urns Of even bliss ranged 'mid these twilights, where —Embers of hope upon the ashen air— Each great nocturnal planet steadfast burns.

From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren




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