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Recent Examples of crepuscular
The Land at Night Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie, 2024, Australia, 16mm, 14m
Against a dense, sinister soundtrack of drones, bells, night creatures, and electric hum, flashes of illumination reveal a trembling crepuscular landscape in Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie’s The Land at Night.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
The star attractions are Goya’s etchings, displayed in a large, crepuscular room that protects these delicate artworks from light damage.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
The encounter happened around dusk, when crepuscular creatures like brown bears tend to be more active.
—Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
Hunt Deer at Midday During the Rut or Severe Cold
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and there are times when deer fall off the crepuscular wagon and move during midday.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
The star attractions are Goya’s etchings, displayed in a large, crepuscular room that protects these delicate artworks from light damage.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
The encounter happened around dusk, when crepuscular creatures like brown bears tend to be more active.
—Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
Hunt Deer at Midday During the Rut or Severe Cold
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and there are times when deer fall off the crepuscular wagon and move during midday.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crepuscular
Adjective
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Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.—
Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
28 Jan. 2023
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Zegler is the true find, a marvelous singer and a radiant persona, and Spielberg and Kaminski film her like a bright flare in a twilit ocean; her sheer presence papers over some of the more facile aspects of Maria’s characterization.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
11 Dec. 2021
Adjective
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When the summer heat creeps to unbearable temperatures, pre-dawn and post-dusk become the most appealing times to run.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
1 Aug. 2022
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Mylar space blankets draped across their shoulders glistened a surreal golden hue as the vessel’s blinding strobe lights illuminated the post-dusk spectacle.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2021
Adjective
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One of those late landscapes, Mountain Landscape in Bohemia (ca. 1830), seems at first glance not to feature a single human at all, just puffy clouds, dusky peaks, and endless blades of grass that appear to sway in the wind.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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There’s also a wide color selection, which includes the dusky pink and plum Disco Dust and the pink, cool purple, and dirty red Electric Cherry.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
19 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Fall asleep and dream about being slowly forced, as if by some mechanized peristalsis, through the digestive tract of a huge synthetic worm that then deposits me into a lightless industrial kitchen.—
Jay Katsir,
The New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2025
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While rappelling into some supposedly haunted mines in Chile in 2010, Gates and a cameraman got trapped in a lightless mine shaft.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
5 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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However, the company issued a gloomy outlook for the first quarter, prompting its stock to drop by about 2% in after-hours trading.—
Francisco Velasquez,
Quartz,
6 Feb. 2025
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Another flashback to three months post-apocalypse, and Cal is at the bar, wondering why everyone in town is so gloomy.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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After running a somber ad in the 2024 Super Bowl aimed at fighting hate and bigotry, the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism tapped Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady in a spot that had the celebrities squaring off against one another, ticking off reasons why people don’t like one another.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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But as their friendship blossoms and becomes complicated by Dennis’s attraction to Roman, the story transforms, too, revealing one twist after another, each more somber yet strangely delightful than the previous.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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What tenebrous horror is this, emerging from the ineffable darkness?—
Jon Chesto,
BostonGlobe.com,
26 Dec. 2022
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By the same token, Spanish cinema at large has been reluctant to engage with that tenebrous period.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Dec. 2021
Adjective
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Above all, her mindset during the 24-7, pitch-black months has proved that there is, in fact, always a bright side to living in the dark.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Zoom in: Divers worked in 20-minute shifts around the wreckage, swimming through the pitch-black depths and taking breaks at times to replace their suits, torn by debris.—
Cuneyt Dil,
Axios,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Crepuscular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crepuscular. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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