coruscate
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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
I am not what sportsmen call a 'heavyweight' of literature—but I can coruscate, which your colossi cannot.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
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
"Brilliant things coruscated about her face and hair: flashing dollar signs."
From Time Magazine Archive
Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white, pink and green.
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
It is certainly possible that Scottish government communications are far less colourful and coruscating than some of those that have emerged from the UK government.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
She finds clarity in club music, joining with the dance producers SG Lewis and Channel Tres to craft sticky, coruscating tracks.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
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
The masks were coruscating, turning, firing the shadows.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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