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Recent Examples of half-light
The play has a beautiful opening, in which a singer played by Georgia Heers appears in a hazy cone of half-light behind a golden curtain.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
The world these characters inhabit, within an enclave of Flushing, Queens, is a place of in-between, captured in the evocative half-light of Norm Li’s cinematography, suggesting the cool-hot glow of the title’s blue sun.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
Wagner and her colleagues used noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes placed on the heads of four reindeer to monitor brain waves under three different lighting conditions: constant light, constant dark or half-dark and half-light to mimic equal day and night hours.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2023
The courtyard of the Four Seasons Washington DC is hot in the late July half-light.
—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
The world these characters inhabit, within an enclave of Flushing, Queens, is a place of in-between, captured in the evocative half-light of Norm Li’s cinematography, suggesting the cool-hot glow of the title’s blue sun.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
Wagner and her colleagues used noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes placed on the heads of four reindeer to monitor brain waves under three different lighting conditions: constant light, constant dark or half-dark and half-light to mimic equal day and night hours.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2023
The courtyard of the Four Seasons Washington DC is hot in the late July half-light.
—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for half-light
Noun
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The lights and darks come preloaded with the drama of film noir, and stoke the mythology of Caravaggio as thuggish prodigy.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Gaga’s Mayhem didn’t end in tragedy: Both light and dark will always exist within Gaga.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The text gets smaller and quieter in the next three panels, followed by three extraordinary solid panels of inky blackness.—
Art Spiegelman,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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In each image, a patch of purple with neon pink veins floats in the blackness of space, surrounded by flecks of light.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Their paths crossed again when Slot returned to Zwolle in the twilight of his playing days after spells at NAC Breda and Sparta Rotterdam.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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The ostensible reason: Benedict didn’t want his physical deterioration to paralyze the church the way John Paul II’s Parkinson’s disease did during the twilight of a papacy that lasted more than a quarter of a century.—
Howard Chua-Eoan,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Both try to exercise in semidarkness.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
1 Sep. 2020
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She [Daria] looks at me and smiles in the semidarkness, a calm, shy smile, full of love.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
3 Dec. 2021
Noun
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At my university, University of Southern California, a multi-ethnic ecumenical cohort held candlelight vigils, teach-ins, and rallies demanding an end to the slaughter.—
Sandy Tolan,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2025
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In the week since Victor was shot, community members have held protests calling for police accountability and a candlelight vigil outside the Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello to mourn the teenage boy.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Some types of mosquitoes bite during the day, while others are more active at dusk and dawn.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
14 Apr. 2025
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The art can be viewed each evening at dusk through Wednesday.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Just across the street was a second landfill, belonging to a Texas company called Weeks Environmental, whose own black mountain—nearly ten million additional barrels of waste—rose into the Texas gloaming.—
Justin Nobel,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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There is an excellent chance that one of the world’s two best golfers will be sliding his arms into a green jacket in the sweet gloaming of Sunday evening just outside the Augusta National clubhouse.—
Jason Sobel,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And yet the announcement wasn’t all doom and gloom.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Despite all the doom and gloom and the difficult comparison to past recessions, some analysts still see green shoots.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Half-light.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-light. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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