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Recent Examples of crepuscular
Use that as a guide to cut wedges in the shape of crepuscular rays of sunlight, with the rinds as the base (see photo below).
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Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Cats have good night vision, to help with their hunting at dusk, and their crepuscular sleeping habits also explain why many cat owners are woken at the crack of dawn by their pet demanding breakfast.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Recessed domes nod to the moon, light fixtures to celestial bodies, and a palette of purples, silvers, and blues to crepuscular horizons.
—Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2024
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.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
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Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Cats have good night vision, to help with their hunting at dusk, and their crepuscular sleeping habits also explain why many cat owners are woken at the crack of dawn by their pet demanding breakfast.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Recessed domes nod to the moon, light fixtures to celestial bodies, and a palette of purples, silvers, and blues to crepuscular horizons.
—Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2024
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.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
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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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Olsen kept her glam simple for the evening and opted for a terracotta blush on her cheeks and a dusky mauve gloss on her lips.—
Starr Bowenbank,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Its 19th-century spire lit up like a matchstick against the darkling sky, its tip cracking and plunging through the ceiling.—
Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Over the weekend, around 16,000 people paid their respects to the designer at his funeral chamber at the Armani Teatro designed by Tadao Ando, filled with white flowers and paper lanterns on the floor in a diagonal grid formation dimly lit up the darkened venue.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them.—
Sidney Stevens,
Treehugger,
14 Mar. 2025
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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
Adjective
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The lawsuit comes at a gloomy time for Cabaret.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
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The prognosis for the months ahead is gloomy.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Chapple, the late Queen’s beekeeper, went first to Clarence House and then Buckingham Palace to perform his somber duty of telling the bees, a centuries-old custom of informing the bees when their owner has died.—
Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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News voices in the 1970's tended to be somber, accent-less, and almost exclusively male.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Crepuscular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crepuscular. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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