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Recent Examples of illumination The staircase wound down, down, down, light provided by illumination globes strung along the walls. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 May 2025 This month's full moon reaches peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. EDT (17:56 GMT) and is known as the 'Flower Moon' to some in North America and Europe owing to the abundant seasonal wildflower blooms that appear during this time of year. Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 May 2025 Each bulb comes with eight high-efficiency LEDs and a powerful battery to provide up to 10 hours of illumination after just eight hours of sun exposure. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2025 The book’s title is its governing metaphor: There are no moments of total illumination here, just a beam shining briefly on a target before scanning restlessly onward. Sam Worley, Vulture, 2 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for illumination
Recent Examples of Synonyms for illumination
Noun
  • However, without explanation, the company withdrew the bid protest four days later on July 1.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2025
  • But in its most simple explanation, the Chiefs trick people.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • The brightness and color reproduction are lackluster, almost as if Acer deliberately found the most middling budget screen possible.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • The display is configurable with nine different color schemes, adjustable brightness and more.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The sunscreen’s lightweight formula gives my skin a radiant glow instead of a chalky finish.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • To execute his signature summer glow, Turner reaches for Chanel Les Beiges Water Tint for fresh, sheer coverage.
    Larry Stansbury, Essence, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Thomas' interpretation and feelings toward the 150-year-old law have been conveyed numerous times in past Court decisions.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • Analyzing the president’s motivations became the continent’s favorite parlor game, because the appropriate response to him would depend on which interpretation one favored.
    Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The celebrated Scottish film and screen actor, who was regarded as one of the brightest lights of his generation, died at the age of 40 from AIDS in 1990, and asked that the cause of his death be publicized to promote awareness and acceptance of the illness.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 June 2025
  • And yet the boundary between death and life, between this world and another, was blurring for both of us in the gray light of London, and my mother’s underlying fear of returning to Kolkata must have been instilling fears in me.
    Jhumpa Lahiri, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • An illustrator and illustrations teacher at the time, Jacobsen learned of Machine Head, a metal fabrication shop in the Crossroads, through Arts Upload, a PBS show featuring local art.
    Madeline King, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2025
  • Featuring illustrations by Nenka Myers, the book will arrive in spring 2026.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Exactly in that single sentence, all of Matt's brilliance tied up into this one thing.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • The duo propelled the decor into the ’50s and ’60s, celebrating the brilliance of Italian masters Giò Ponti, Nanda Vigo, Gae Aulenti and Osvaldo Borsani.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 June 2025

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“Illumination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illumination. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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