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interzone

  • a word derived from zone.
    zone
    noun
    any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The temperature lies outside the danger zone.

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Where “Will” is told with a straightforward directness, confronting practical realities, “Nightshift” is a film of ambiguous evocation, existing in an interzone between waking, dreaming and nightmare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

The result was “Spiral,” 52 minutes in the interzone, a cosmic axis where all points intersect, beholden to neither contemporary trends nor febrile nostalgia.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021

Not that the interzone between lucidity and dreaming is automatically a negative for a surreal experience.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2015

An area called the joint interzone located between adjacent cartilage models will become a synovial joint.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

For some, I imagine, this would be a disconcerting, frustrating experience, but I quickly got used to this linguistic interzone.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2010