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coruscate

[kawr-uh-skayt, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˌskeɪt, ˈkɒr- /


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Metallic shards of blue, red, and white light coruscate across the reflective steel and glass backdrop.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2017

He has deployed witticisms and aphorisms that coruscate with good-natured sophistication.

From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2017

The shadow chancellor stood at the House of Commons despatch box at 13.20 GMT to coruscate Philip Hammond over his Autumn Statement.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2016

He admires the centuries-old abbey: O'er this north door a trace still lingers Of how a Gothic craftsman's fingers Could make stones creep like ivy stems And tilings coruscate like gems.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those names ought to coruscate as the purest light of patriotism for future generations.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

When Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic coruscated through the Ninth Symphony during World War II, the Germans thought Beethoven was writing for them.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022

Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white, pink and green.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Brilliant things coruscated about her face and hair: flashing dollar signs."

From Time Magazine Archive

Its lustrous white satin billowed from the waist into a crinoline that coruscated with flowers of pearls and leaves of gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

A mild cheer coruscated through the crowds worldwide.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

He got 14 goals during a coruscating loan spell at Sunderland the season before.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

But in the Evening Standard, Fiona Maddocks described it as “music of coruscating, storming beauty.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

The recording still holds up, a fire coruscating through its lucidity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

His piano style reflected the coruscating romanticism of Art Tatum, the inventive precision of Powell and the spiky individuality of Monk — who later became Mr. Harris’s longtime housemate.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021

Yet Athens had a coruscating tradition of rhetoric, lyric drama, and philosophy.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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