as in glare
the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible
the glow of the restaurant's table lamps is especially flattering to diners
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as in to flame
to be on fire especially brightly
the coals glowed red-hot
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as in to blush
to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)
when they found out he had won the tournament, his parents glowed with pride
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Recent Examples of glow
Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 27 Apr. 2026
Don’t Forget the Light Fixtures Bugs and dust accumulate around porch lighting, dimming the glow over time.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
Molly Burford, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
Burson turned off the lights, and the statue and the spheres began to glow.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
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Noun
True to its name, it’s loaded with peptides to help balance excess oil, boost elasticity, and bring back that glow.
—Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 27 Apr. 2026
Don’t Forget the Light Fixtures Bugs and dust accumulate around porch lighting, dimming the glow over time.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
It's rated five stars on Tripadvisor, with tons of glowing five-star reviews.
—Molly Burford, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
Burson turned off the lights, and the statue and the spheres began to glow.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glow
Noun
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Symptoms include blurry or double vision, floaters, dark spots and trouble seeing in glare or bright light.—
Samantha Agate,
Sacbee.com,
1 May 2026
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With a glare and a snarl and youthful athleticism, the wrong side of history beckons.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
Verb
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This campy, reality-shifting comedy series questions what would happen if a flaming misogynist woke up in a world that was completely matriarchal and subjugated men based on their gender.—
Madeleine Janz,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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The juvenile managed to drive the flaming car back onto the freeway, driving again the wrong direction before the car gave out near the Auburn Boulevard on-ramp.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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New Jersey forest cherries, bright yellow, blushing red.—
John McPhee,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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These blushing spring radishes add a lovely color and flavor to little gem lettuces.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The overhead lights were off, for ambience, but midafternoon daylight streamed through the windows.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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That was the night the lights went out in Orlando; the night everything changed – the series, the confidence level and perhaps even the future of the head coach and the front office.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
Verb
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While the vast majority of burns occur with few issues, fires have escaped in rare cases, like in New Mexico in 2022, which led the Forest Service to pause burning nationwide.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
4 May 2026
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The mayor and the City Council have been warned for years that these shortcomings were leaving the city unacceptably vulnerable to the very kind of emergency that wiped out my home, killed 12 of my neighbors and burned 7,000 additional structures.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
Verb
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Some of the chemicals that didn’t stick were flushed with the multibillion-dollar industry’s wastewater into local sewer pipes and, eventually, the region’s rivers.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 May 2026
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Allowing your body to rest gives it time to flush out the lactic acid that can build up after intense physical activity.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
6 May 2026
Noun
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But here the songs are crystal clear, with the clean surfaces and spick-and-spam gleam of a factory floor.—
Andrew Ryce,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2026
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The conductor Charlotte Rowan, who became the group’s artistic director only a few years ago, has not merely upheld its tradition of communal exactitude but honed it to a gleam.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But something else was happening, too — skepticism blazed across even mainstream spaces.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
4 May 2026
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The same goes for Godfrey, who has been a spark behind the Wave’s blazing start.—
Fernando Ramirez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2026
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“Glow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glow. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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