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scintillating
Definition of scintillating
: brilliantly lively, stimulating, or witty a scintillating conversation
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The striker, on-loan at Bristol City, has been in scintillating form for the Robins this season.
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Arturo and Deborah Keller, honored as collectors of the year, are bringing a scintillating group of cars from their private collection in California, which is not open to the public.
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The band's scintillating grooves helped that glow grow.
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Miss Sloane (July 19) Jessica Chastain is riveting as a Washington, DC lobbyist who takes on her old firm over a new gun-control law in this scintillating political thriller from director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love).
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The paths might not have been without hiccups (especially for Video Assistant Referees!), but a rather drab group stage in Russia's World Cup tune-up has given way to a pair of scintillating semifinals that will produce a final worth watching.
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Dalilah Muhammad led a scintillating 400-meter hurdles competition, Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs threw haymakers at each other in a crowd-pleasing shot put and collegiate star Daejah Stevens upset world leader Tori Bowie in the women's 200.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Golden State's Draymond Green and Cleveland's LeBron James have spent the last two days entertaining NBA fans with scintillating exchanges via social media, at a parade and now on a podcast.
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Snapshot Laura Kipnis on the platitudes of middle age: This isn’t exactly scintillating stuff, and for women writers the ground is especially well trod.
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First Known Use of scintillating
1793
SCINTILLATING Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of scintillating for English Language Learners
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: very clever, amusing, and interesting
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