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fluorescent

[floo-res-uhnt, flaw-, floh-] / flʊˈrɛs ənt, flɔ-, floʊ- /


ADJECTIVE
illuminating
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
luminescent
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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The fluorescent light stung my eyes after hours in the darkness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It was odd enough that most people in the crowd were wearing fluorescent orange, but stranger still was this rarity: the sight of a group of diverse men full of hope.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

The hearing is where the debasement gets acknowledged, years late, under fluorescent lights, by the people who presided over it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Not ironically, and not only in the nostalgic way one loves things that arrived alongside an adolescence spent under fluorescent lighting.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Breaking up atoms, as James Trefil has noted, is easy; you do it each time you switch on a fluorescent light.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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