luminesced

Definition of luminescednext
past tense of luminesce
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Verb
  • The bride’s ensembles were designed by an Oscar-winning costume designer; film crews, photographers, and more than 1,000 reporters descended upon Monaco to cover the nuptials; the guest list glittered with international celebrity.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The red carpet glittered with A-listers and their equally high-profile dates.
    Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • That experience — viewing such an alien terrain at close range as the sun gleamed over the horizon, highlighting the troughs and peaks of a foreign land — brought home for the crew how unique our home planet is.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • For a long time, the property gleamed in the daylight with its white, ornate facade against lush green landscaping and often at night, as well, with twinkling holiday lights attached to almost every surface.
    Heather McRea, Oc Register, 18 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Sporting a bob cut and bangs — a departure from her usual long brown hair — Loughin, 61, shimmered in a silver strappy dress by Rebecca Vallance.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • But the song, which Springsteen also performed in 2016, shimmered on stage with Lofgren and Morello trading guitar solos and Springsteen finding his upper register to provoke a lump-in-throat moment.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • At the opening night of the Public Theater's The Merchant of Venice in February 1995, the stars glowed.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Dubbed the largest photographs in the world, the images were 18 feet by 60 feet and, backlit with a mile of tubing, glowed.
    Marcia Greenwood, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Days earlier, at Makapuu Beach on the eastern shoreline of Oahu, the water glimmered with an unusual greenish tint, prompting people to head to beaches down the road where the water seemed clearer.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Around a pond near the Lincoln Memorial, some 10,000 tea lights glimmered in little paper bags.
    Noam Levey, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ma’s bow danced over the strings; Ax’s fingers glistened across the keys.
    Jane Bua, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The gratification was immediate; tears glistened on fans’ cheeks as the lights pulsed on stage.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Beaded coats glinted with star-chart embroidery.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In 2023, astronomers reported that some of these satellites were already photobombing images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, as sunlight glinted off their surfaces leaving bright trails that erase, obscure or mimic genuine cosmic signals.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • With the Cubs in a tight playoff race at the time, the team losing the game added more fuel to the fire that members of the left had already blazed.
    Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In the 21st century, Jason's daughter Sadie returns to Brownsville as a journalist, determined to unravel the mystery of what happened decades earlier on the night the buildings blazed.
    Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
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“Luminesced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/luminesced. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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