as in sun
the light given off by the star around which the planet Earth revolves spent a week at the shore soaking up the sunshine and salt air

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Recent Examples of sunshine Summer is the perfect season to refresh team dynamics, enhance collaboration, and bring a bit of sunshine into the workplace culture. Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025 Together, the combination works to stand up to long days of sunshine, heat, and rain. Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 2025 On a rainy summer’s day in London, Deadline provided a ray of musical sunshine for a packed audience at the historic Shoreditch Church. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 June 2025 Nugget by Sherwin-Williams When a windowless basement home gym in Vienna, Va., needed a jolt of energy, designer Laura Hildebrandt opted to bring in a bit of sunshine of sorts on the ceiling. The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sunshine
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  • Psyche is a nickel-iron core asteroid that orbits the sun beyond Mars anywhere from 235 million to 309 million miles away.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2025
  • The third photo showed three inflatable sun bed loungers hooked together so the group could stay close and not drift apart.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 25 June 2025
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  • These reactions require sunlight and higher temperatures, making warmer months more prone to ozone formation.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • This tower then redirects the concentrated sunlight downward to heat a solar reactor that contains particles of a mineral oxide called ceria – or rather, a doped version of it.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 23 June 2025

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“Sunshine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunshine. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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