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Recent Examples on the WebVerb
Plus, it's equipped with LED lights and swivel steering to illuminate fine dust and maneuver around obstacles.
—Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022
Each panel's made by hand, intended to doubly illuminate each of your string lights and magnify the existing beauty of your tree.
—Grace Smith, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022
In a feat of literary alchemy, Kingsolver uses the fire of his spirit to illuminate — and singe — the darkest recesses of our country.
—Washington Post Editors And Reviewers, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
Less familiar is her reverence for the arts and their transformative capacity, an intimate side of her that the concert will seek to illuminate and animate.
—Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
The spacecraft will use its near-infrared lasers to beam light into shadowy regions of the lunar south pole, seeking to illuminate and reveal lurking water ice.
—Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022
Clark thought connecting me with her brother would illuminate the human toll of bureaucrats’ draconian decision-making and explain why Laguna Honda must remain funded and open.
—Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2022
Ring lights illuminate photo and video content in a flattering way that reduces shadows on the face and blurs the appearance of blemishes.
—Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2023
Outside the second-floor window, sporadic points of orange illuminate the bleak low-rise buildings.
—Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
Adjective
Flashlights, lamps, and cellphones illuminate bodies but obscure faces.
—Danielle Momoh, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
Cole’s remarkable and unforgettable novel and its flâneur protagonist, Julius, a Nigerian immigrant, illuminate aspects of New York rarely before depicted in fiction.
—New York Times, 30 June 2022
Tender interactions like these illuminate Chloe’s emotional state, giving viewers more to latch on to than her longing stares and anxious lip biting.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
Animated characters sing along as trees and snowflakes illuminate to the beat.
—Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Dec. 2021
The details of the dispute illuminate major hurdles that countries around the globe will face in eliminating coal from their energy mix—and the need to develop local solutions to set an ambitious and actionable path toward decarbonization.
—Baker Institute, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
If sentiments seem easily derived in a few stories, in the best ones, mysteries like Theodosia's illuminate larger truths about love, loyalty and the persistence of memory.
—Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
The problem is that, while the careful study of history can provide policymakers with powerful insights, incongruous comparisons can just as easily obscure as illuminate contemporary challenges.
—Richard Fontaine, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
Throughout the film, interviews reveal the pervasive abuses committed against infants, children and teens as well as illuminate groups and people who are working to stop it.
—Kimber Myers, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
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