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sunbeam

noun

Definition of sunbeam

as in beam

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Recent Examples of sunbeam 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 The hilarious video shared in June by @kayleighmaven, shows the Maine Coon briefly enjoying a sunbeam before suddenly changing his mind and deciding to assault his canine sibling, who was just chilling on the floor nearby. — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sunbeam

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Alexander Bazilevsky, a BNL physicist, and electromagnetic calorimetry manager for the ePIC detector, stated that the calorimeter will primarily measure electrons scattered by the beam.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
Laser ablation, which aims a focused beam at cells, accounted for about 45% of procedures.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of beam

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There are some crazy laser rays, goofy wipe transitions, robots who are menaces to society, to be sure.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026
Essentially, hackers disguise malware as ripped Blu-ray releases or other legitimate video versions of the movie, and once downloaded, users get infected.

— Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026

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