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Recent Examples of headlight
The image revealed the car brutally smashed up, missing its right headlight and with its bumper hanging off.
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
The four drivers were cited for infractions including a broken headlight, no insurance, speeding and no seatbelt.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
Over 800 tiny light louvers spread across the grille and headlight bar at the front and the taillights at the rear, where a microscopic spoiler matches a chrome lower diffuser.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
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
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
The four drivers were cited for infractions including a broken headlight, no insurance, speeding and no seatbelt.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
Over 800 tiny light louvers spread across the grille and headlight bar at the front and the taillights at the rear, where a microscopic spoiler matches a chrome lower diffuser.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headlight
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This time around, the company added 15 percent larger cabin windows for the jet’s 12 passengers to enjoy, as well as an advanced acoustic system for quieter flights, customizable interiors, and wireless control of lighting, temperature, and more onboard.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
7 Jan. 2026
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Khondji looked at boxing films and paintings, including the work of George Bellows, to figure out the lighting system for the matches.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Jan. 2026
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There's a 110-dB speaker with K-class amplifier included as well, and a 160-lumen flashlight feature that's also reckoned good for a 50-meter beam range.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Jan. 2026
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Ancient petroglyphs of human figures and cryptic symbols thought to have been scrawled by the Taino, the islands’ pre-Columbian inhabitants, appeared under our flashlight beams.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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The church will also distribute water purification tablets and storage containers, pots and cooking utensils, sheets and blankets, solar lanterns for lighting during outages and other essentials.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
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When connected, PlayStix can function as a hanger, able to hold small items such as cups, utensils, lanterns, or headlamps – which is surprisingly useful while traveling or outdoors without dedicated gadgets for this.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Jan. 2026
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The candle, which is housed in a glass jar, has a 150-hour burn time.—
Isabel Garcia,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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All were welcome to bring a candle and attend with peaceful intent.—
Karie Angell Luc,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Eufy $220 Best Buy Our favorite floodlight security camera boasts a 3K wide-angle lens, a 2K telephoto lens that can pan 360 degrees and tilt 120 degrees to track subjects, and two adjustable light panels that will blast out 2,000 lumens.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
2 Dec. 2025
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Second, the 900,000-watt floodlights shining down on an ever-increasing bald spot.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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This happened almost two years to the day after Bob Robinson-Dassel's dog Nikki died from electrocution after walking over a metal plate beneath a streetlight on the Murray Avenue Bridge, also energized by faulty wiring.—
Meghan Schiller,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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In the days leading up to the winter solstice, amber streetlights switch on ever earlier as dusk falls over Flagstaff, Ariz., casting the city in a soft, warm hue.—
Emily Elconin,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2025
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Don Camillo, Syracuse This Syracuse institution, right in the heart of Ortigia’s maze of buttermilk antiquity, is an elegant old-timer, with bags of vaulted ceiling and wrought iron chandelier character.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Jan. 2026
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There are three smaller chandeliers that measure 36 inches and feature over 4000 crystals each.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
11 Jan. 2026
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Adding dimmer switches in your home (or opting for dimmable light bulbs) is another way to take your home’s winter lighting to the next level.—
Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2026
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Several months ago, I was tasked by She Who Must Be Obeyed to gather several new interior ordinary light bulbs for lamps.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Headlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headlight. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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