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sunbeam

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Definition of sunbeam

as in beam

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Recent Examples of sunbeam At the American University of Beirut, your classmate could have four paws and a penchant for napping in sunbeams over taking lecture notes. — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 12 Feb. 2026 In another tale, included in an Anglo-Norman narrative that survives in an illustrated manuscript, Jesus takes off his coat, places it upon a sunbeam and sits upon it. — Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025 Here, love is sublime but elusive, like trying to catch a sunbeam in the palm of your hand. — Jason Lamphier, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025 The camera’s gaze rises to the wall behind Haemi, where a sunbeam briefly appears. — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sunbeam

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During radiotherapy, small tattoos can help clinicians repeatedly align radiation beams with the correct treatment area.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
The rest of their apartment complex was littered with roof shingles and broken beams from a wooden fence.

— Emilie Megnien, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of beam

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Since then, researchers have won Nobel Prizes for discoveries using neutrinos created with particle accelerators, in cosmic-ray air showers in the Earth’s atmosphere and in the core of the Sun.

— Doug Cowen, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
There’s the brutal heat; the skin destroying UV-rays of that miserable, scorching, eye-blinding sun; the constant allergy/sinusitis issues that NEVER let up; the smothering humidity.

— R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026

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