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Over the last few years the maison’s creative director Fausto Puglisi has modernized the heritage print design, initially inspired by the reflection of a sunbeam on Roberto Cavalli’s Art Deco gilded lighter, into a signature motif featured across his ready-to-wear and couture collections.—Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 30 Apr. 2025 Rather than taking in warming sunbeams, some researchers want to repel them and turn down global temperatures by refreezing a swath of Arctic ice as big as the combined area of Texas and New Mexico.—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025 Across India’s dizzying sprawl of traditions and topographies, this root glows like a sunbeam that binds it all.—Sara Hussain, Vogue, 22 May 2025 That shadow isn’t perfect, so sunbeams sneak around the shadow’s edges, bathing the moon in warm hues.—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 11 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for sunbeam
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of sunbeam was
before the 12th century
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