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Recent Examples of brilliancy Pinnacle of splendor On Sunday morning, April 27, Venus comes up in total darkness while shining at its greatest brilliancy (magnitude –4.7). Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025 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 The Red Planet, shining at magnitude –1.4, is 40° to the east-northeast, and the king of planets, Jove, still near its greatest brilliancy for the year at magnitude –2.8, lies 46° west-southwest of Luna. Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022 Set emerald green against bright white to highlight its brilliancy. Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2022 Tonight also sees Venus is at greatest brilliancy, so get eyes-on with the second planet from the Sun right after sunset. Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2021 One of these stars may rise from almost invisibility to a brilliance equaling 100,000,000 times the brilliancy of our sun, although, of course, such super novae are so far away that the estimates can be made only with telescopes. Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2020 The truth is that in the history of chess, spanning more than a millennium, there hasn’t been a single human brilliancy, however wayward and unexpected, that a computer could not have located. Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brilliancy
Noun
  • To qualify as a bolide, an incoming meteor must reach the brightness of Venus, which, like the moon, is often visible in the daytime sky.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 June 2025
  • The display is configurable with nine different color schemes, adjustable brightness and more.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Exactly in that single sentence, all of Matt's brilliance tied up into this one thing.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Expect moments of clarity and flashes of brilliance to illuminate your path.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • When the theme arrived in the cellos, Guerrero maintained their levity and grace throughout the movement — and, in fact, throughout much of the piece, bringing an aerodynamic lightness even to the symphony’s final cadence.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
  • After Appeals Court Pauses Ruling While the bolster gives support and balance to the knife, the lightness of the bolster-free Japanese knives offers ergonomic benefits.
    Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025

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“Brilliancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brilliancy. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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