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Adjective
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So naturally in a state that treats basketball like a religion and the sport’s biggest stars like royalty, nobody casts a bigger shadow in this community now than the slender 6-foot-6, 196-pound, 19-year-old freshman who changed Final Four weekend with one brilliant shining moment Sunday afternoon.—
Michael Marot,
Chicago Tribune,
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At a time of so much partisanship in Congress, especially related to health care, breakthrough legislation is a shining example of how commonsense policies that support patient care and innovation can achieve broad support.—
Josh Makower,
STAT,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Contemporary examples of the paradox in action are plenty: LEDs, heat pumps, and front-loading washer-dryers use less electricity than incandescent bulbs, furnaces, and top-loaders.—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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The rising popularity of LED bulbs—which use 75% less energy than incandescent bulbs—means lighting is making up a smaller and smaller share of the nation’s energy budget, making DST gains negligible.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Refreshers can be ordered in both still and sparkling versions, accommodating afternoons that could use a bit of effervescence.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
10 Apr. 2026
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Demi Engemann preferred sparkling water, sugar-free coconut, sugar-free raspberry, sugar-free pineapple and coconut cream.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2026
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Healey, wearing her crisp white Red Sox uniform and Wu dressed in resplendent red with her Red Sox hat, looked somewhat stunned at the reaction but did not flee.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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The pitch came just with this resplendent banquet of dishes.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Find a bench and sit among the radiant flowers, ponds and chirping birds.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Apr. 2026
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Still, collagen coffee can be a morning pick-me-up that can improve skin, hair, nails, joints, bones, gut health, and more for a radiant glow.—
Brianna Peters,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2026
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Carley young and bold, her large, lambent eyes lined with black, her dark hair still lush and animal-thick, her full lips set in an expression of stubborn will.—
Mary Gaitskill,
New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2026
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One night, the living room will be suffused with a soft lavender glow; the next a bold yolk-yellow or a lambent hot pink.—
Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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The meat braises for six hours and the lucent broth is simmered separately; this sandwich takes no shortcuts.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
18 June 2024
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His attention is a lucent destination for our words and antics.—
David Velasco,
Harpers Magazine,
18 Dec. 2023
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Kawamura makes the point explicit late in the proceedings, with a hallucinatory outdoor sequence that briefly removes us from the train station altogether—easily the story’s most glaring structural and stylistic anomaly.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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The NYT‘s profile either downplayed or omitted all of these glaring ethical red flags.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Relucent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relucent. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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