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Recent Examples of sunlight
Keep your flowers in a location that is bright but avoid direct sunlight, and keep them away from drafts, or entryways where large temperature fluctuations are likely.
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Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
The prolonged below-freezing temperatures prevented the snow pack from melting for an extended time, reflecting sunlight and limiting natural warming, keeping it colder and the energy demand higher, AccuWeather reported.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026
Companion plants that share specific sunlight and moisture needs thrive together.
—David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday rejected bitopertin, a therapy developed by Disc Medicine to treat the rare blood disorder porphyria, which makes patients extremely sensitive to sunlight.
—Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Feb. 2026
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Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
The prolonged below-freezing temperatures prevented the snow pack from melting for an extended time, reflecting sunlight and limiting natural warming, keeping it colder and the energy demand higher, AccuWeather reported.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026
Companion plants that share specific sunlight and moisture needs thrive together.
—David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday rejected bitopertin, a therapy developed by Disc Medicine to treat the rare blood disorder porphyria, which makes patients extremely sensitive to sunlight.
—Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunlight
Noun
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Good footwear, plenty of water, and sun protection are must-haves.—
Paul Richardson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Feb. 2026
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Only a very small region of Antarctica lies in the path of annularity, a roughly 2,661-mile-long and 383-mile-wide (4,282 by 616 kilometers) corridor where the moon will cover about 96% of the sun's disk.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Yet each, in a different key, experiences the sunshine as a species of purgatory.—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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Sunday will bring back sunshine to Boise.—
Hali Smith,
Idaho Statesman,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Sunlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunlight. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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