: lighted by or as if by the sun
… these animals favor the vegetation growing in sunlit clearings …—
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Long sunlit strands of vines hung from its branches.
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Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 7 Nov. 2025
The sun has fired off not one but two colossal X-class solar flares in less than 12 hours, causing radio blackouts across the sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption and marking a dramatic uptick in solar activity.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Long sunlit strands of vines hung from its branches.
—Idra Novey, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
In one sunlit image, a barefoot Tougaard reclines on a messy bed wearing one of the crop tops and loose Bermuda shorts from the spring 2026 collection paraded earlier this month.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Sunlit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunlit. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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sunlit
adjective
sun·lit
-ˌlit 
: lighted by or as if by the sun
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