twilight zone
noun
1
a
: an area just beyond ordinary legal and ethical limits
2
: a world of fantasy or illusion
Examples of twilight zone in a Sentence
He gets lost in the twilight zone of video games.
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The biological entities called viruses exist in the twilight zone between life and non-life and remain an elusive subject of evolutionary study.
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Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
The sport has entered a twilight zone where Indiana has already qualified for a bowl and Vandy fans are toting a goalpost through downtown Nashville and throwing it into the Cumberland River.
—David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
This means anglerfish call the twilight zone home, regularly venturing even deeper into the midnight zone.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
My teenage self wonders: Is this twilight zone my eventual destiny?
—Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
The sport has entered a twilight zone where Indiana has already qualified for a bowl and Vandy fans are toting a goalpost through downtown Nashville and throwing it into the Cumberland River.
—David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
This means anglerfish call the twilight zone home, regularly venturing even deeper into the midnight zone.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
My teenage self wonders: Is this twilight zone my eventual destiny?
—Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Twilight zone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twilight%20zone. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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