Examples of brilliance in a Sentence
The professor was known for his brilliance.
the brilliance of a diamond
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Atlanta began to show flashes of brilliance, especially with their defense putting together multiple takeaways.
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James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
The organic shapes evoke stones found in nature and were cut to maximize brilliance, which differs from how natural diamonds are cut for value.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
May this 33rd year around the Sun be a portal into another dimension of brilliance & abundance!
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
But when a filmmaker puts his most dismal vision for our collective future onscreen, we’re somehow supposed to pretend these terrible premonitions could never have occurred to little old us, instead hailing them as a feat of imaginative brilliance.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
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James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
The organic shapes evoke stones found in nature and were cut to maximize brilliance, which differs from how natural diamonds are cut for value.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
May this 33rd year around the Sun be a portal into another dimension of brilliance & abundance!
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
But when a filmmaker puts his most dismal vision for our collective future onscreen, we’re somehow supposed to pretend these terrible premonitions could never have occurred to little old us, instead hailing them as a feat of imaginative brilliance.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
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“Brilliance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brilliance. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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brilliance
noun
bril·liance
ˈbril-yən(t)s 
: the quality or state of being brilliant
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