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Recent Examples of crepuscular
The encounter happened around dusk, when crepuscular creatures like brown bears tend to be more active.
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Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
Hunt Deer at Midday During the Rut or Severe Cold
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and there are times when deer fall off the crepuscular wagon and move during midday.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
In the wild, red pandas are solitary, tree-dwelling and crepuscular − active at dusk and dawn − the release said.
—Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2023
With its high, darkened windows looming over Chester’s bone-white hospital bed and wheelchair, Beowulf Boritt’s set design creates a between-two-worlds effect that is skillfully augmented by Peter Kaczorowski’s crepuscular lighting and Brendan Aanes’s jolting sound design.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
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Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
Hunt Deer at Midday During the Rut or Severe Cold
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and there are times when deer fall off the crepuscular wagon and move during midday.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
In the wild, red pandas are solitary, tree-dwelling and crepuscular − active at dusk and dawn − the release said.
—Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2023
With its high, darkened windows looming over Chester’s bone-white hospital bed and wheelchair, Beowulf Boritt’s set design creates a between-two-worlds effect that is skillfully augmented by Peter Kaczorowski’s crepuscular lighting and Brendan Aanes’s jolting sound design.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crepuscular
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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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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
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Blacktip sharks are smaller and often confused with dusky and spinner sharks that live in the same areas.Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 July 2024
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By studying yellow and red forms of a parrot known as a dusky lory the research team also identified a gene central to coloring in that bird and its parrot relatives.Elizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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While rappelling into some supposedly haunted mines in Chile in 2010, Gates and a cameraman got trapped in a lightless mine shaft.Vulture, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
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Animals that live exclusively in lightless caves often share a suite of traits, called troglomorphisms, which include loss of pigmentation and loss not only of vision but of the eyes entirely.Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2018
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Target is heading into the holiday season with a gloomy outlook, with the retailer reporting its sales and profit fell short of analysts' expectations and lowering its earnings forecast for the current quarter.Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Television news always seems like a series of gloomy, negative stories.Jason Richmond, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Lego Horizon Adventures, available for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC, rebuilds 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn in the Lego universe, transforming the somber and complex Horizon into something simpler, a bit sillier and more kid-friendly.Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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This seems to be part of the reason The City and Its Uncertain Walls is such an unnaturally somber book.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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What tenebrous horror is this, emerging from the ineffable darkness?Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
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By the same token, Spanish cinema at large has been reluctant to engage with that tenebrous period.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
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Walking into that pitch-black space, not seeing anything while having my eyes wide open exhilarated and frightened me.Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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On Sunday night, billionaire Elon Musk, in a pitch-black Make America Great Again hat, took the stage at Madison Square Garden to introduce former President Donald Trump to a packed audience of MAGA supporters.Will Steakin, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Crepuscular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crepuscular. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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