as in brilliance
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the dazzle of the stars on a cold but clear winter's night
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Recent Examples of dazzle
Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025
Edmonds dazzled in an all-white ensemble as her son was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
—Natasha Dye, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Francisco Lindor reached base three times and dazzled in the field.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Inside the pope’s final hours: Francis dazzled the crowd during a popemobile trip into St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
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Verb
But if these pins have been dying a quiet death for decades—women have rejected them wholesale, and instead have been turning them into necklaces, charms, anything but brooches—men have moved in, and now these sparklers dazzle from the fanciest monkey suits on the planet.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025
Edmonds dazzled in an all-white ensemble as her son was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
—Natasha Dye, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Francisco Lindor reached base three times and dazzled in the field.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Inside the pope’s final hours: Francis dazzled the crowd during a popemobile trip into St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dazzle
Noun
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Broadway continues to recognize the brilliance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, one of the outstanding talents of this new generation of American playwrights.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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Is this real?‘ That to me is where the brilliance of her performance lies.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2025
Verb
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The danger, though, is that business leaders will get blinded to this by the daily chaos and comedy of Washington’s tariff war.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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What too few asked was whether we were meant to realize what’s going on sooner than Irons’s besotted suitor, a man blinded by his romanticized, Orientalist fantasies.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Amidst such a torrent of fascist chaos, the brightness and backbone of Real Women Have Curves feel bracing.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Sour cream: Complements the cream cheese base and adds some brightness and tang for a dynamic, fresh flavor.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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When Kevin Anderson, Burns' friend from prison, read the transcript of the hearing, he was stunned.—
Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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But at the hearings, the lawyers were frequently stunned by how government attorneys described the whereabouts of the men in question.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
Noun
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So, astronomers have come up with a compromise regarding the geometry of the sun's illumination angle on Venus' disk versus its distance from Earth to determine the time of Venus' greatest brilliancy.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Family circles will have wrapped themselves in the holy pleasures of the great occasion, and everywhere the grand old holiday will have been introduced with all the majesty and brilliancy which clings around the hallowed name of Christmas.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Chardonnay gives freshness, lightness, and complexity.—
Per and Britt Karlsson,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Chloé captures a balance of natural femininity, sensuality, and lightness, harmonized with independence and freedom.—
Tiziana Cardini,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Dazzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dazzle. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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