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Recent Examples of sunlit
In it, two women sit on the sunlit balcony of a house; the older one reads, while the younger one rests atop the railing in a bikini.
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Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
And a 1912 altarpiece painted by Prince Eugen, a member of the Swedish royal family and a renowned landscape artist, features a sunlit forest grove to represent nature as spiritual instead of traditional religious scenes.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2025
Grays were often closer to the sunlit edges.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
There is nothing to see from the moon itself during a black moon as with all new moons the sunlit side faces away from Earth.
—James Powel, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
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Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
And a 1912 altarpiece painted by Prince Eugen, a member of the Swedish royal family and a renowned landscape artist, features a sunlit forest grove to represent nature as spiritual instead of traditional religious scenes.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2025
Grays were often closer to the sunlit edges.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
There is nothing to see from the moon itself during a black moon as with all new moons the sunlit side faces away from Earth.
—James Powel, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunlit
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Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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Chiave said that Zénith Nomade was born from a vision rooted in taking the chandelier down from the ceiling and hanging it on a tree branch, as an alternative way to enhance moonlit dining and everyday living.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
19 Sep. 2025
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The job only got heavier on this hot and sunny Sunday, when the home team was booed off the field at halftime by the sections of MetLife that weren’t filled with Cowboys fans.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Expect a high of 85 degrees, mostly sunny and very warm.—
Amy Huschka,
Freep.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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That’s not to say the movie is all sunshiny and upbeat about the increasing dominance of tech in our lives.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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And her chihuahua, Betty, had pink glittery nails and a pink glittery collar, and her shiny name tag.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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Can a record be shiny and also kind of earthy and spare, in the whole?—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Sunlit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunlit. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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