beacon

It acted like a molecular beacon, allowing scientists to detect and isolate BiP more easily during experiments.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

It’s got so much potential to be that beacon again, that leader in the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

But throughout these last 250 years, many have looked to America as a beacon of hope, opportunity and freedom from places that had too little of all of that.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

Dyer's great-grandmother said her grandson had been the family's "final beacon of hope" after a "relentless sequence of tragedies".

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Bailey can’t help but smile when it is fully lit, shining like a beacon: Le Cirque des Rêves.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

It is now starting to build military-grade infrastructure like navigation beacons.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Some ships are sailing “dark,” as it is known in the industry, turning off lights and traveling without navigational beacons known as AIS, or Automatic Identification Systems, that help prevent collisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

For many years, astronomers have relied on distant supernovae as cosmic beacons to study the universe and test the laws of physics.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

That makes us all time travelers of a sort, too, beacons of an increasingly distant era in which it was possible to be unplugged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

‘It is long since the beacons of the North were lit,’ he said; ‘and in the ancient days of Gondor they were not needed, for they had the Seven Stones.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien