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Recent Examples of beamy
Bowhead are beamy black whales, the size of a school bus and a half at most, with a characteristic downturned jaw.
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The Economist, 14 June 2018
The Economist, 14 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beamy
Adjective
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Family members swapped stories about Maliek’s radiant smile, about the little legs that excitedly carried him through the park.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
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About a minute in, a radiant drone fades up like morning sunlight spilling across a landscape.—
Dash Lewis,
Pitchfork,
24 Feb. 2026
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Carley young and bold, her large, lambent eyes lined with black, her dark hair still lush and animal-thick, her full lips set in an expression of stubborn will.—
Mary Gaitskill,
New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2026
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One night, the living room will be suffused with a soft lavender glow; the next a bold yolk-yellow or a lambent hot pink.—
Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Eloise's shining moment comes in Quinn's To Sir Phillip, With Love, and follows her love story with Sir Phillip Crane—yes, that Phillip, who married his late brother's true love Marina Thompson.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
31 Jan. 2026
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Her world, fueled by her life, was the shining and irrefutable definition of integrity.—
Josh Peter,
USA Today,
20 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Know More Initially founded in 2012 with a $5 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Nautilus incinerated cash, sparing no expense in its pursuit of bringing resplendent literary science to the reading public.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Wearing the biggest, most resplendent headwear of all was Alex Oloonkishu, Bateleur’s camp naturalist.—
Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Everything was practically brand-new and sparkling clean.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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Tarantino is most excited about his wine menu, featuring more than 100 different options, including more than 50 Italian white, red and sparkling varieties, as well as a mix of wines from California, Oregon, France, Spain, Argentina and Chile.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Before Irving Langmuir came along, incandescent bulbs contained a vacuum.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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The process is arduous, spanning days or weeks of boiling and soaking in syrup, but when sugar properly penetrates fruit’s cellular structure, not only does the appearance become almost incandescent, but the microbes that cause spoilage can’t survive.—
Hannah Walhout,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The brightening and blurring properties come from bismuth oxychloride, a mineral that adds a light-reflecting luminous finish, and silicones that create the illusion of blurred skin.—
Essence Wiley,
InStyle,
25 Feb. 2026
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The tint can be used on its own or as a luminous, tone-evening foundation base; it can also be tapped into the high points of the face as a highlighter.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2026
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In the shots, Kelce is seen on one knee beneath a floral arch, while a beaming Swift holds his face and shows off her huge diamond ring.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Beamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beamy. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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