twilight zone
noun
1
a
: an area just beyond ordinary legal and ethical limits
2
: a world of fantasy or illusion
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He gets lost in the twilight zone of video games.
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The twilight zone frequency of the city is easy to romanticize.
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Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
The twilight zone—which extends from 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface—is not only home to organisms such as whales, squid and jellyfish.
—Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2025
In a 2023 study, Pearson and colleagues used foraminifera fossil data to predict the fate of the ocean’s twilight zone, a region 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface.
—Tim Vernimmen, JSTOR Daily, 19 June 2025
In a 2023 study, Pearson and colleagues used foraminifera fossil data to predict the fate of the ocean’s twilight zone, a region roughly 650 feet to 3,250 feet below the surface.
—Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
The twilight zone—which extends from 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface—is not only home to organisms such as whales, squid and jellyfish.
—Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2025
In a 2023 study, Pearson and colleagues used foraminifera fossil data to predict the fate of the ocean’s twilight zone, a region 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface.
—Tim Vernimmen, JSTOR Daily, 19 June 2025
In a 2023 study, Pearson and colleagues used foraminifera fossil data to predict the fate of the ocean’s twilight zone, a region roughly 650 feet to 3,250 feet below the surface.
—Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for twilight zone
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“Twilight zone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twilight%20zone. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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