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Ms. Haynes brings back the poetry of time, reintroducing terms such as “gloaming” and “dimpse,” which mean the dimness of twilight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Fifteen dancers sit in dimness, supervised by some kind of overseer.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Although the evolution and spectra of the event resembled a binary star merger, its dimness pointed to a star-planet merger instead.

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023

Our first day of daylight saving time, eagerly awaited by so many, seemed anticlimactic on Sunday as clouds hid the evening sun, and what we had saved seemed only to be dimness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2023

He crouched in the dimness, heart pounding, listening hard.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman