twilight zone
noun
1
a
: an area just beyond ordinary legal and ethical limits
b
: twilight sense 2a
2
: a world of fantasy or illusion
Example Sentences
He gets lost in the twilight zone of video games.
Recent Examples on the Web Last month, researchers from Hope for Reefs and the Maldives Marine Research Institute surveyed some of the Maldives’ twilight zone reefs. 
Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022 In the center of one room was a display of spiny king crabs, sea stars, and translucent spot prawns, denizens of the twilight zone. Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022 Most stick to depths between 200 and 1,000 meters, a region officially named the mesopelagic but better known as the twilight zone; others plunge far deeper. Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022 Most dive as far down as the twilight zone, where the dim light from above rapidly dwindles to nothing. Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022 Earth will be in a twilight zone and terrible things will likely happen in the form of droughts, wildfires, super-storms, and hurricanes. Ian Palmer, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022 If nothing is done, our earth will enter a twilight zone. Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021 Then ask yourself if the goals will stand up to the twilight zone (a head nod to the popular, old American TV show). Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 18 May 2021 To me, the twilight zone is more of a feeling than a TV show or a place: a mixture of quaint and eerie, a nostalgic menace. Wired Staff, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020 See More
Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022 In the center of one room was a display of spiny king crabs, sea stars, and translucent spot prawns, denizens of the twilight zone. Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022 Most stick to depths between 200 and 1,000 meters, a region officially named the mesopelagic but better known as the twilight zone; others plunge far deeper. Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022 Most dive as far down as the twilight zone, where the dim light from above rapidly dwindles to nothing. Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022 Earth will be in a twilight zone and terrible things will likely happen in the form of droughts, wildfires, super-storms, and hurricanes. Ian Palmer, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022 If nothing is done, our earth will enter a twilight zone. Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021 Then ask yourself if the goals will stand up to the twilight zone (a head nod to the popular, old American TV show). Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 18 May 2021 To me, the twilight zone is more of a feeling than a TV show or a place: a mixture of quaint and eerie, a nostalgic menace. Wired Staff, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1908, in the meaning defined at sense 1a