twilight zone
noun
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: an area just beyond ordinary boundaries or limits (as of ethics, legality, etc.)
… that political twilight zone where left and right meet …—
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: a world of fantasy or illusion
I began to imagine that I'd entered the twilight zone—that the sun would never rise, the drive would never end, and I would be doomed to spend eternity … crammed between two husky men who reeked of cigarettes …—Michael Benanav
Michael BenanavExamples of twilight zone in a Sentence
He gets lost in the twilight zone of video games.
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My style is somewhere in the twilight zone between cartoon and reality, yet neither.
—Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025
The twilight zone frequency of the city is easy to romanticize.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
The twilight zone—which extends from 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface—is not only home to organisms such as whales, squid and jellyfish.
—Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2025
In a 2023 study, Pearson and colleagues used foraminifera fossil data to predict the fate of the ocean’s twilight zone, a region 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface.
—Tim Vernimmen, JSTOR Daily, 19 June 2025
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Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025
The twilight zone frequency of the city is easy to romanticize.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
The twilight zone—which extends from 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface—is not only home to organisms such as whales, squid and jellyfish.
—Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2025
In a 2023 study, Pearson and colleagues used foraminifera fossil data to predict the fate of the ocean’s twilight zone, a region 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface.
—Tim Vernimmen, JSTOR Daily, 19 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for twilight zone
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“Twilight zone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twilight%20zone. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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