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Recent Examples of sunlit
Virgin’s Scarlet Night show turns the decks into a roving, all-red street party, while Celebrity Cruises’ Eden shifts from sunlit garden lounge to after-hours cabaret.
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Lauren Dana Ellman, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Ensuring your roof is structurally sound and sunlit sets the foundation for an efficient system.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Lauren Dana Ellman, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Ensuring your roof is structurally sound and sunlit sets the foundation for an efficient system.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunlit
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When the sun rose on the 17th, it was revealed that the colonists—possibly out of a last-minute change of plans, possibly out of moonlit confusion—had built a rough defensive fort on the other hill, Breed’s Hill.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Partly sunny, with a high near 59.—
Cheryl Vari,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
27 Oct. 2025
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The weather is expected to be mostly sunny, becoming partly cloudy, with a high near 56 and a low around 40.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 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
Adjective
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Studio show is shiny, but needs some work Good news!—
Andrew Marchand,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Trump has since added more portraits in more opulent and baroque frames, and added decorative ornaments in shiny gold (including wall finials, fireplace accents and a row of vessels where greenery used to be).—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Sunlit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunlit. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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