twilight world

noun

: a mysterious or secret world
the twilight world of informants and spies

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Set in the twilight world of Sunhaven, the film will follow four children pulled from Earth into a realm where joy and color are draining away. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026 In such a world, the pervasive dependence upon increasing numbers of interconnected, obsolete systems will have created something far grimmer and murkier than Edgerton's twilight world. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2020

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“Twilight world.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twilight%20world. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.

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