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Adjective
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The Orionid meteor shower will unfold against a pristinely dark, moonless sky — unlike the Perseids, whose August peak was somewhat ruined by the light cast by a waning gibbous moon that hid dimmer members of the shower from view.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
13 Oct. 2025 -
On a moonless night in January, a gargantuan turtle was digging a nest high up on a soft sand beach at Galathea Bay on the Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.—
M. Rajshekhar,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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
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“Starless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starless. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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