illumine

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Recent Examples of illumine Rev 21:10), an ark of salvation sailing through the waters of history and a beacon that illumines the dark nights of this world. Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025 The lighting illumines each river in brilliantly bright backdrop colors. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025 The bar was illumined by candles and an uplit line of mostly esoteric liquors along the full-length mirror against the back wall. Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024 In a room illumined by the light of a few candles, a group of women with veils over their faces conducts a séance. Rhoda Feng, ARTnews.com, 9 Aug. 2024 First a dazzling light show that illumined the arena in a constellation of purple. NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024 Hung’s defense of artistic passion starts with the human touch, then illumines our basic needs and spiritual appetite. Armond White, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024 The papaya-pulp glow of sodium lights on a remote station’s platform revealed the denizens of the wayside: disused open-top hoppers, empty coil cars, corroded gondolas, a modest village in the distance illumined by weak-yellow streetlamps. Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for illumine
Verb
  • Walking deeper into a smelly cave along the Albania-Greece border, cavers shined their flashlights along the rock walls and illuminated a massive spider colony.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The blade flares into existence, its scarlet glow illuminating the cave, brighter than the lava, brighter than the runes.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The participants were also generally well-educated and came from multiple study sites.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Content creators and designers alike are using it as the base for side tables, desks, shelving, storage, and even lighting.
    Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The scheme came to light thanks to monitoring services that track bets and look for unusual patterns.
    NPR, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Its success inspired a wave of canal building in other states, although the economic benefit of these other canals is dubious in retrospect.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The aftermath of that crash inspired her branch of the Brown family tree to reshape the Louisville medical scene.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This number one-selling electric toothbrush is equipped with four cleansing modes to whiten and brighten your teeth over time, plus eight replacement heads for convenience.
    Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The Orionid meteor shower peak begins tonight, welcoming a spectacular natural light show that could see a flurry of shooting stars spawned by Halley's Comet brighten the dark, moonless sky.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Illumine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illumine. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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