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as in burned
to be on fire especially brightly
the coals glowed red-hot
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as in blushed
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 glowed
After exposing the bones to a high-energy blue light, the team used an optical filter to see which of them glowed red.
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Sahas Mehra,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
The sandstone bowl of a stadium built in 1924 glowed gold.
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Jonathan Cohen,
SPIN,
13 June 2026
As the sun set, the grounds glowed with scarlet lights that illuminated the red ottomans in the seating and lounge areas, creating an almost theatrical atmosphere.
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Stefania Conrieri,
Vanity Fair,
7 June 2026
May's full Blue Moon put on a dazzling display over the weekend, flooding the night sky with moonlight as the red supergiant star Antares glowed nearby.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
1 June 2026
The Sphere glowed yellow behind the stands.
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Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2026
Feldstein glowed in a pink lacy dress, smiling as her wife placed a hand on her stomach.
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Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
The Grammy-winning R&B singer, 39, glowed in an all-white ERL suit, which combined a puffy, floor-length jacket with a retro-style shirt and enlarged bow tie.
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Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
ServiceNow, meanwhile, is doing everything right—almost every revenue and profitability metric glowed in its latest quarterly results—and yet shares took a 14% dive as the SaaSpocalypse fears loom.
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John Kell,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
Sahas Mehra,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
The sandstone bowl of a stadium built in 1924 glowed gold.
—
Jonathan Cohen,
SPIN,
13 June 2026
As the sun set, the grounds glowed with scarlet lights that illuminated the red ottomans in the seating and lounge areas, creating an almost theatrical atmosphere.
—
Stefania Conrieri,
Vanity Fair,
7 June 2026
May's full Blue Moon put on a dazzling display over the weekend, flooding the night sky with moonlight as the red supergiant star Antares glowed nearby.
—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
1 June 2026
The Sphere glowed yellow behind the stands.
—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2026
Feldstein glowed in a pink lacy dress, smiling as her wife placed a hand on her stomach.
—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
The Grammy-winning R&B singer, 39, glowed in an all-white ERL suit, which combined a puffy, floor-length jacket with a retro-style shirt and enlarged bow tie.
—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
ServiceNow, meanwhile, is doing everything right—almost every revenue and profitability metric glowed in its latest quarterly results—and yet shares took a 14% dive as the SaaSpocalypse fears loom.
—
John Kell,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glowed
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The Cottonwood Fire had burned nearly 72,000 acres and is at 0% containment.
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Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
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The actress blushed as her co-stars, Whoopi Goldberg and Quinta Brunson, showered her with some love at a Kevin special screening later that day.
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The oversize headwear shaded her face, shielding her dark brows over her taupe smoky eye, lightly blushed cheeks and the pop of pink on her lips.
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An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, astronomers said Monday.
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Some celebrity children went to their parents' own Ivy alma maters — like Conan O'Brien's son, who went to Harvard University — while others blazed their own academic paths to institutions like Brown, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale.
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These proteins are usually flushed into the bloodstream through the blood-brain barrier.
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This may seem obvious, but experts have seen socks and undergarments put down the toilet—when they really shouldn't be flushed.
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An infinity-edge pool stretches toward the horizon, while expansive Ipe wood decks, flamed granite terraces, and an outdoor kitchen frame sweeping bay views.
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Finish with a cremaet, Valencian coffee flamed with rum infused with lemon and cinnamon.
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SportsCenter flickered on several televisions.
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In the Florida Keys, lights flickered and boats rocked a bit more than usual.
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That night, the northern lights gleamed cold and hard, and the moon bathed the whole landscape in bleak, eerie light.
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The 4,202-pipe organ gleamed over us.
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All of this shone vividly through his work, which shared his joy, artfulness and deep feeling, and most of all privileged human experience and social interaction.
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One of the deputies shone his light through the window and pounded on the door again.
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“Glowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glowed. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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