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gloaming

[gloh-ming] / ˈgloʊ mɪŋ /


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At the point where gloaming meets night, we also lose the horizon line, so necessary for navigation by the stars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

I’m more of an evening than a morning person, so this arrangement makes viewing Mercury easier for me, and I’m always delighted when I can catch it in the gloaming.

From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2023

Two hours later in the California gloaming, List secured an even better treat for little Ryann List.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2022

“In Gates’s telling,” noted our reviewer, Jon Meacham, the Black church “shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth.”

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022

In the gloaming to the east, he can make out a gray line of traffic herded between the edges of the road.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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