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Recent Examples of crepuscular
Foggy days around Sutro Tower also cast crepuscular rays similar to the Transamerica Pyramid.
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Newsroom Meteorologist,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Jan. 2026
Smith, who at 36 has reached the crepuscular stage of his career, was emotional following the game.
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Anthony Bettin,
CBS News,
31 Dec. 2025
And his use of color — bold reds, crepuscular blues, hopeful yellows — is impossible to forget.
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Ernesto Lechner,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Nov. 2025
As crepuscular animals, felines are most active at dawn and dusk, which their ancestors used to their advantage to hunt in the wild, according to an article from the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Newsroom Meteorologist,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Jan. 2026
Smith, who at 36 has reached the crepuscular stage of his career, was emotional following the game.
—
Anthony Bettin,
CBS News,
31 Dec. 2025
And his use of color — bold reds, crepuscular blues, hopeful yellows — is impossible to forget.
—
Ernesto Lechner,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Nov. 2025
As crepuscular animals, felines are most active at dawn and dusk, which their ancestors used to their advantage to hunt in the wild, according to an article from the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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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.
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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.
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When the summer heat creeps to unbearable temperatures, pre-dawn and post-dusk become the most appealing times to run.
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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.
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Dragonstone is the windswept ancestral seat of House Targaryen, but the Black Queen did not grow up playing among its dusky caverns.
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In Randolph’s photo, Brisket could be seen lounging on a dusky pink velvet chair with a table in front of him set with a martini and a glass of red wine.
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She’s talked up her push to convert darkened streetlights, many of them stripped of their copper wire, to solar power.
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In the darkened foyer, Ember contemplated this unassuming bit of paper, momentarily paralyzed by a mixture of dread and excitement stirred together, an overpowering sensation that oozed from the crown of her head, down the length of her body, then hardened, like a soft golden resin becoming solid.
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Such black holes would be extremely hard to spot and thus might account for some or all of the universe’s dark matter—an invisible, lightless something that seems to act like gravitational glue, binding together galaxies and galaxy clusters.
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Oh, and the grief was almost a person of its own, darkening the minds of some of the characters as much as any lightless corridor could darken a space.
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The gloomy Jersey skies and rain didn’t deter fans — who were mostly in white English kits — from supporting The Three Lions in the match, one that felt like a game at Wembley Stadium considering the UK-like elements.
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The second reenactment takes place on the actual anniversary of Washington’s crossing — a freezing, snowy, gloomy Christmas Day in 1776.
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The film breathes in a dynamic way, the last few beats taking a startling turn toward a somber wistfulness.
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The hilltop De Smet Cemetery strikes a somber note.
Adjective
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Their flowers stand out like no others due to the backdrop of their tenebrous leaves.
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Her writing can be luminous or tenebrous as the mood requires.
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“Crepuscular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crepuscular. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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