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coruscate

[kawr-uh-skeyt, 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

The onion domes and crosses atop the Kremlin's cathedrals and churches coruscated in the winter sunlight, while the renovated brick battlements of the ancient fortress loomed over the elegant imperial palaces, freshly painted in pastels.

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

Without a sound, the leaves shone and the grass coruscated along the miles of the escarpment.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Snow geese and coruscating tulips draw me to the sloughs and wetlands where the serpentine Skagit River flows into the Salish Sea.

From Seattle Times Jun. 16, 2023

However, Scotland survive a late onslaught and streaked away with the clock in the red, Kinghorn bursting over after a coruscating break to complete his hat trick.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2023

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

In Doris Lessing’s new novel — her 12th book, fifth to be published here, and a coruscating literary event — she bites off only one thing that she doesn’t properly chew.

From New York Times Oct. 21, 2021

St. John said these words as he pronounced his sermons, with a quiet, deep voice; with an unflushed cheek, and a coruscating radiance of glance.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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