in a different light
idiom
: in a different way : differently
I see things in a different light now.
Examples of in a different light in a Sentence
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The football world would be forced to view him in a different light — perhaps then his doubters finally get to enjoy his highly entertaining, swashbuckling game.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
The press release might focus entirely on the healthy attributes of Beyond IV and the promise of the new product, but the news story has been circulated more widely in a different light.
—Marnie Shure / The Takeout, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
Nor is there even the faintest whiff of gay panic when an out-of-the-blue disclosure causes the supervisor to look at his friend and colleague in a different light.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured 19 nearby spiral galaxies in a different light.
—Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
America needs to wake up and look at the farmers in a different light.
—Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
Here are some current contenders that show (and tell) teachers in a different light.
—Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
Worsham took note and slowly began to view Rubberband in a different light.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
But a wide range of potentially more effective and lasting interventions becomes possible when pandemics are understood in a different light: not as arbitrary calamities but instead as probabilistic events, made more likely by human agency.
—Sonia Shah, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2020
Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
The press release might focus entirely on the healthy attributes of Beyond IV and the promise of the new product, but the news story has been circulated more widely in a different light.
—Marnie Shure / The Takeout, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
Nor is there even the faintest whiff of gay panic when an out-of-the-blue disclosure causes the supervisor to look at his friend and colleague in a different light.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured 19 nearby spiral galaxies in a different light.
—Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
America needs to wake up and look at the farmers in a different light.
—Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
Here are some current contenders that show (and tell) teachers in a different light.
—Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
Worsham took note and slowly began to view Rubberband in a different light.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
But a wide range of potentially more effective and lasting interventions becomes possible when pandemics are understood in a different light: not as arbitrary calamities but instead as probabilistic events, made more likely by human agency.
—Sonia Shah, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2020
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