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
Chandler Rome, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2025
Few franchises have dazzled interior design and architecture lovers in the way that Downton Abbey has.
—Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 26 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Getting swept at Fenway Park following the trade deadline diminished the dazzle of Carlos Correa’s acquisition.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
The extended warmth affects the fall foliage -- a natural spectacle that dazzles the country every fall and boosts local tourism.
—Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2025
Few franchises have dazzled interior design and architecture lovers in the way that Downton Abbey has.
—Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dazzle
Noun
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That is more relevant to his departure than those initial flashes of brilliance.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Success is the result of serial effort, not one-time brilliance.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And the time when his friendly relationship with Bashar al-Assad blinded him to the devastation the Syrian leader was prepared to visit upon his people.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
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Nevertheless, some senior defense officials, a full year after October 7, suspected that the malfunctions were not a coincidence but rather the result of a sophisticated cyberattack that included intentional power outages to blind Israeli surveillance.—
Yaakov Katz,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Users can choose between two different brightness levels and adjust the angle of the light and the solar panel for customized preferences.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Govee has refined the software from previous models to improve the brightness and color accuracy, and the lights are more durable now.—
Andrew Gebhart,
PC Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Instead, the army became bogged down in a grinding war of attrition, and the West was stunned by Moscow’s poor battlefield performance.—
David Kirichenko,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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When news of the closing of Valerie Chang’s Peruvian restaurant Maty’s was announced in Midtown, Miami diners were stunned.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Just make sure that the shoe silhouette isn’t too chunky so the look retains its lightness.—
Katharina Fuchs,
Glamour,
1 Sep. 2025
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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
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“Dazzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dazzle. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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