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This was the moment Son Doong caught us in its grasp: sunbeams cascading 120 stories from a break in the ceiling, groundwater, above us, slipping through the light like rain — and rock reflecting what seemed like the only sound in the world.
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Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
At the American University of Beirut, your classmate could have four paws and a penchant for napping in sunbeams over taking lecture notes.
—Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 12 Feb. 2026
Floor-to-ceiling sunbeams are composed of cascading orchids.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
In another tale, included in an Anglo-Norman narrative that survives in an illustrated manuscript, Jesus takes off his coat, places it upon a sunbeam and sits upon it.
—Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
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Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
At the American University of Beirut, your classmate could have four paws and a penchant for napping in sunbeams over taking lecture notes.
—Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 12 Feb. 2026
Floor-to-ceiling sunbeams are composed of cascading orchids.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
In another tale, included in an Anglo-Norman narrative that survives in an illustrated manuscript, Jesus takes off his coat, places it upon a sunbeam and sits upon it.
—Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
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“Sunbeam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunbeam. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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sunbeam
noun
sun·beam
-ˌbēm 
: a ray of sunlight
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