twilight
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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
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
The sun disappears completely beyond the horizon, and the remaining luminosity shifts from dusk to twilight.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Because of the longevity of their careers, too many people will remember them mostly in their twilights, which is a shame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
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
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
Now the lengthening twilights hold Tints of lavender and gold, And the marshy places ring With the pipers of the spring.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
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