twilight

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So is this like a weird twilight zone episode where if we criticize the higher powers bad stuff happens?

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Quick take

the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of twilight gathered in one view.

noun

the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

noun

the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

noun

a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for twilight.

noun

the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

noun

the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

noun

a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"

adjective

lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

Example sentences

So is this like a weird twilight zone episode where if we criticize the higher powers bad stuff happens?

The gradual replacement just makes for an unusual twilight, its mind commingled with an arising digital being.

It will probably remain a hypothesis in a pseudoscientific twilight zone forever.

The company still has an incredible number of immensely talented engineers of whom I think quite highly, but the company is so horribly managed that I see nothing but a cold, miserable twilight in its future.

"Far better it is, to dare mighty things,to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failurethan to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer muchbecause they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

I and a lot of my peers are planning to leave our home countries specifically so we don't have to spend a single penny supporting the twilight indolence of that morally vacuous cohort who literally ruined the world for their benefit, after spending their youths supposedly saving it, and their middle ages talking endlessly about how great they are for having done so, all while they carved chunks out of their children's future.