brightness

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Recent Examples of brightness The team estimated its brightness at about 6,700 times that of the Sun, characteristic of an intermediate-to-high-mass star. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025 Simply touch anywhere on the stand’s chrome arm to turn the nightlight that surrounds the base on or off, and to control the nightlight’s brightness. Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025 Nearly 3,000 Amazon shoppers gave the candle trio a five-star rating for their adjustable brightness, realistic flickering features, and neutral colors. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025 But this year’s Series 11 likely won’t be a dramatic update, with Apple retaining the same look, including a new screen that ups the maximum brightness and shuffling its color (the Jet Black Series 10, for instance, has had chipping issues) and band offerings. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brightness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brightness
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • That is more relevant to his departure than those initial flashes of brilliance.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Success is the result of serial effort, not one-time brilliance.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Just make sure that the shoe silhouette isn’t too chunky so the look retains its lightness.
    Katharina Fuchs, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Awe dropping, obviously, suggests jaw-dropping, which some have said refers to the thinness and lightness of the iPhone 17 Air.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike some products that promise glow-in-the-dark illumination that barely shows, our testers found that the Takeya Actives Kids Water Bottle fully delivered on its promise.
    Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Turquoise underwater illumination, my favorite kind of light.
    Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The new star shines because its surface is hot, but the energy fueling that luminosity percolates up from its core.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Take the Haute Couture Facial, for example; this non-invasive treatment is fully customized, defining facial contours, improving texture and luminosity via a mix of cold laser, ultrasound, microcurrent, LED, cryotherapy, and oxygen infusion, and is exclusive to the New York outpost.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Brightness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brightness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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