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as in brilliancy
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the brilliance of the flash from the camera was so intense that I was blinded for a moment afterwards
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as in majesty
impressiveness of beauty on a large scale
the brilliance of the palace is really quite staggering
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Recent Examples of brilliance
Yet Team Melli's dream of advancing to a World Cup knockout round for the first time is still very much alive, thanks to an afternoon of brilliance from goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand in a 0-0 draw with Belgium on Sunday.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
Jimmy’s brilliance revealed itself in a number of ways.
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Warren Littlefield,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2026
Those were organizations who saw something in me and saw my genius, my brilliance, my vision as an artist, and wanted to support that.
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Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
19 June 2026
Way behind Waymo Yet, for all its technical brilliance, the Cybercab remains stuck.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
18 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for brilliance
ABC News,
21 June 2026
Jimmy’s brilliance revealed itself in a number of ways.
—
Warren Littlefield,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2026
Those were organizations who saw something in me and saw my genius, my brilliance, my vision as an artist, and wanted to support that.
—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
19 June 2026
Way behind Waymo Yet, for all its technical brilliance, the Cybercab remains stuck.
—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
18 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for brilliance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brilliance
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The result is an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.
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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.
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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has witnessed more than a century of American history, in all its heartbreak and majesty.
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Ultimately, though, no words can truly do justice to the majesty of their play.
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Astronomers repeatedly attempted to fit subtle shifts in the brightness of T CrB to the few points of reliable historical data on offer, while accounting for fluctuations in the white dwarf's feeding rate.
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Green, in soft shades from sage to pistachio, is a new neutral that adds nice brightness to a spring wardrobe.
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My ambitions are crowned with glory.
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This mile and an eighth run over the main track was inaugurated in 1982 and has long been a stepping stone towards Breeders’ Cup glory and beyond.
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The collection expressed an idea of contemporary simplicity, built through precise proportions, evolved materials and a new visual lightness.
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Choose Furniture With Raised Legs McClain creates visual lightness by choosing seating that is raised up from the floor.
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Co-founder Doug Frost is one of only a handful of people alive to hold both the Master Sommelier and Master of Wine titles, and the team utilise that world view to produce elegant Bordeaux and Rhone blends that capture a local identity and speak to a crowd wanting wanting elegance and acid.
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Swift is all about classic silhouettes and her wedding gown will likely have timeless elegance.
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Each piece spells out a message—happiness, beauty, and magnificence—in the ancient pictorial writing.
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Championing not just human magnificence but human imperfection is a radical turn.
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But as far as nobility in football goes, Lagerbielke is a rare player to make it this far in their career, with a bright future seemingly still ahead.
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This piece of jewelry, worn by Princess Elisabeth, was a wedding gift from the Belgian nobility to Mathilde on the occasion of her wedding in 1999.
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“Brilliance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brilliance. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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