as in bright
in a manner marked by the shining or reflecting of much light
with lights burning as incandescently as the midday sun, soundstages on early color films often reached 100 degrees
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brightly
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Women in brightly colored dresses danced in shoes that loudly clicked across the floor.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Sep. 2025 -
Those stars burn through their fuel quickly, shine brightly, and then — overwhelmingly — end their lives in a core-collapse supernova.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Incandescently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incandescently. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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