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"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "twilight zone (third-person singular simple present twilight zones, present participle twilight zoning, simple past and past participle twilight zoned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2016, Bill Roddey, Making ID TV's 'Too Pretty to Live' Crime Show Starring Me",
"text": "Then a gnome like white haired lady, bent like a human question mark, lurched toward me and asked if I was the mailman. [...] I was Twilight Zoning.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To experience or perceive something bizarre or fantastic."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To experience or perceive something bizarre or fantastic."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, David H., Beddington Registry Service review, Yelp",
"text": "The service is likely from a bad twilight zone episode. [...] I did get what I required but I had to ask lots of questions as the communication was Twilight Zoning often.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To behave or occur in a confusing or unexpected manner."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To behave or occur in a confusing or unexpected manner."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"word": "twilight zone"
}
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