twilight zone
Frequency: 6.58.2 per million words
figurative; a situation or experience that is strange, mysterious, or unreal
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- He felt like he was living in a twilight zone between truly living and merely existing.
- Entering that old, abandoned house felt like stepping into a real twilight zone.
- After the accident, he found himself in a twilight zone of confusion and memory loss.
- The bureaucratic process was so convoluted, it felt like navigating a legal twilight zone.
- Her dreams often blurred into a strange twilight zone where reality and fantasy merged.
- Some argue that the internet's unregulated spaces have become a digital twilight zone.
- The patient was in a medical twilight zone, neither fully conscious nor completely unconscious.
- His theories delve into the twilight zone of quantum physics, where common sense often fails.
- Moving to a new country can sometimes feel like living in a cultural twilight zone.
- The unsettling silence of the empty town created a true twilight zone atmosphere.