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Recent Examples of candelabrum
Yes, menorahs, the candelabrums that hold the candles lit during Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights which ends Dec. 22.
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Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 15 Dec. 2025
The Jewish Festival of Lights, observed for eight days and coinciding with Christmas Day this year, includes the lighting of candles on a nine-branched candelabrum called a menorah and eating traditional foods, such as latkes.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2024
By creating casts of the negative spaces left behind, archaeologists were able to reconstruct the furniture inside the room: a wooden bed, a stool, a chest, a bronze candelabrum and a table that once held bronze, glass and ceramic objects.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
George Plimpton, taking the candelabrum on the move, like a one-hand pass, and carrying it on to .. .
—Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
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Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 15 Dec. 2025
The Jewish Festival of Lights, observed for eight days and coinciding with Christmas Day this year, includes the lighting of candles on a nine-branched candelabrum called a menorah and eating traditional foods, such as latkes.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2024
By creating casts of the negative spaces left behind, archaeologists were able to reconstruct the furniture inside the room: a wooden bed, a stool, a chest, a bronze candelabrum and a table that once held bronze, glass and ceramic objects.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
George Plimpton, taking the candelabrum on the move, like a one-hand pass, and carrying it on to .. .
—Gloria Steinem, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for candelabrum
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The en suite bedroom has two windows, a private entrance, and a modern candelabra-style chandelier.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
23 Mar. 2026
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Other images similarly mix the romantic and the mundane, with glamorous students in front of kitschy backdrops of misty woodlands or positioned between towering candelabras.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Like the restaurant, Toja draws on local traditions with a spa menu that includes invigorating pijat massages and exfoliating scrubs with rice, ginger, and candle nut.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Use a low amber light or candle if safety is a concern.—
Allison Palmer,
Sacbee.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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The grandiose space’s massive stage and high-caliber lighting rigs promise extravagant parties and ceremonies that will light up the city’s social calendar.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
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Scenic designer Matthew Herman created a rectangular center stage with LED panel lighting by Sammy Webster that mimics the flourescent office lights of the past but explodes with color in a surprise dancing-on-the-tables scene.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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While all rooms are spacious and feature floor-to-ceiling windows, silk wallpaper, bedside lanterns and feel modern and Japanese.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Apr. 2026
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Ponder the enormously popular magic-lantern shows that appeared in seventeenth-century Europe.—
Daniel Birnbaum,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There are bespoke statement headboards and Murano glass chandeliers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Overhead, two antique Palme crystal chandeliers designed by Austrian architect Josef Hoffman draw eyes upward, adding gravitas to the historic home.—
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans,
Robb Report,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The beetle manages to grab a leaf and right herself again before climbing its green surface to discover the call of a new light bulb.—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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From here, all that’s left to pick out are the light bulbs.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Gardner was kept busy tossing out his hat, some spare boots, flashlight, and other gear to mark the places at which the meat was being jettisoned.—
Dave Duffey,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2026
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News coverage of the ICE airport deployments showed some officers running away from journalists, and in one case an officer appeared to be trying to use a flashlight to blind news cameras.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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When these rapidly spinning neutron stars blast out radiation from their poles, that radiation sweeps across the cosmos like beams of light from a cosmic lighthouse.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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Gorman, who was with her friends at the time on the pier, looked behind the lighthouse and saw Medina-Medina there.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Candelabrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/candelabrum. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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