crepuscular
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The catalog’s full-page reproductions, in spectacular colors or crepuscular monochromes, are frequently transporting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Over on YouTube, their crepuscular 2005 album track Take Me Somewhere Nice has been streamed 85 million times.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025
The study, published last month in the journal Biological Conservation, found that Southland mountain lions became more nocturnal and less crepuscular — i.e., active at dusk or dawn — in popular recreation areas.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024
“The Bourgeois Gentleman” and “The Forced Marriage” each steer Molière toward crepuscular absurdity.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
Colonel Korn was an untidy disdainful man with an oily skin and deep, hard lines running almost straight down from his nose between his crepuscular jowls and his square, clefted chin.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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