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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

But the majority were satisfied to coruscate to an ever applauding audience—for a few years; with money easily got and delightfully spent; to regard Life as a game, not as a business.

From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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

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

A mild cheer coruscated through the crowds worldwide.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 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

But either way, another thumping, fizzing, coruscating clash is on the cards and who ever expected to say that about October international weekend?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2021

The masks were coruscating, turning, firing the shadows.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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