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noun

plural of floodlight
as in headlights

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verb

present tense third-person singular of floodlight
as in lights

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  1. headlights
  2. lights
  3. lanterns
  4. glows
  5. candles
  6. beams
  7. chandeliers
  8. ignites
Noun
  • Brumbelow has found that cars with headlights rated highly by IIHS for visibility—which includes many but not all LED headlights—have 19% fewer nighttime crashes compared to cars with poor headlight visibility.
    — Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of headlights
Verb
  • If Mick hadn’t come cruising into that playground, lights off?
    — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Alex Consani walks into a room and lights the whole thing up.
    — Time, Time, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of lights
Noun
  • String lights, solar lanterns, warm-toned bulbs and candle lanterns handle the lighting.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Enchanted lanterns are suspended in the air, giving a magical ambiance to this charming Orlando home.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of lanterns
Verb
  • In the spring and summer, ‘Kaleidoscope’ glows yellow-green and bears small white flowers.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2026
  • All of them catch the light, so a cluster on a mantel or a windowsill glows as the afternoon sun moves across them.
    — Danielle Bouchard, Martha Stewart, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of glows
Noun
  • The Greek patriarch will light candles and then the flame is passed from one candle to the next.
    — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Definition of candles
Verb
  • Many other states and countries have been making use of the images Carbon Mapper’s first satellite, Tanager-1, beams down.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • That model beams your notes over to your phone, where they're handily transcribed in a companion app.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of beams
Noun
  • Le Bistrot de Jan is a lovely jewel box just off the lobby, with glittering chandeliers and walls and furniture in deep sapphire and ruby tones.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Inside the Masonic Lodge on the cemetery grounds, beneath chandeliers, dozens of people search for stillness with a meditation class.
    — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of chandeliers
Verb
  • The painting itself even ignites uncertainty among art historians.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • In modern nuclear weapons, conventional explosives set off a fission reaction—the splitting of big atoms—whose intensity then ignites a fusion reaction that combines light atoms.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of ignites
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