as in brilliance
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the dazzle of the stars on a cold but clear winter's night
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Recent Examples of dazzle
Karina Hoshikawa, Refinery29, 22 Sep. 2025
Joan and Luke had a love that was all fireworks and sexy dazzle; after Luke died, Joan married Larry, who was all ordinary-guy solidity.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2025
This group organizes the sellout Autumn Lights fundraiser, where more than 100 volunteer artists, some of them Burning Man participants, dazzle the crowds with their artful, eye-catching interpretations in a three-night colorful show.
—Pj Bremier, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Lastly, liquid eyeliners in silver and gold dazzle with a single gaze across the room.
—Karina Hoshikawa, Refinery29, 22 Sep. 2025
Joan and Luke had a love that was all fireworks and sexy dazzle; after Luke died, Joan married Larry, who was all ordinary-guy solidity.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
This makes the next couple of nights the ideal time to watch for dazzling aurora displays.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2025
This group organizes the sellout Autumn Lights fundraiser, where more than 100 volunteer artists, some of them Burning Man participants, dazzle the crowds with their artful, eye-catching interpretations in a three-night colorful show.
—Pj Bremier, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dazzle
Noun
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Such is the brilliance of Wes Craven’s self-aware spin on serial-killer tropes, which manages to both mock a generation of teenagers raised on the campy likes of Friday the 13th and deliver honest scares in its own right.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
29 Oct. 2025
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Harden’s brilliance was only one part of the equation.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Vedrines makes several flights from the flanks of K2, including a harrowing one into a blinding blizzard.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
23 Oct. 2025
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The only way to get to the bottom of their motives is not to let their enchanting words blind you.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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While the stellar extent of the galaxy is normally only shown to overlap with the bright dusty disk, superior techniques can reveal the low surface-brightness halo and streams around it.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
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Magnitude is the scale used to measure the apparent brightness of objects in the night sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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But Miles stunned the country by entering the transfer portal and eventually landing at TCU, a few weeks after the Horned Frogs eliminated Notre Dame in the Sweet 16.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Oct. 2025
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Joined by real-life magician Noah Levine, the star stunned fans with card tricks and a special surprise.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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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
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Her film holds a rare balance of lightness and depth, moving originally between humor and vulnerability without ever losing emotional truth.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2025
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The frontier dissolves into the lightness of air, and the world is full of holes.—
Henry Freedland,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Dazzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dazzle. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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