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glare

[glair] / glɛər /
NOUN
very bright light, shine
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In the report, planting trees and fencing have been suggested report as ways of reducing the glare of outside lights.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

And during heated exchanges in the Oval Office in February that year, both raised their voices during an argument in the full glare of television cameras.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

They then applied advanced processing techniques to remove glare from the much brighter host star.

From Science Daily Jun. 28, 2026

People glare at me as if I’d shot their dog.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

The look on her face was half entreaty, half glare.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Behind it all is a Pittsburgh native, you-know-who, head coach Curt Cignetti, the sideline stern face who still glares at his charges like it’s spring practice and someone just dropped two punts a row.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 10, 2026

A massive "Home Furnishings" banner glares over the line of grubby once-white caravans, many with padlocked doors and windows taped shut.

From BBC May 2, 2025

Drawing on the icy glares of 21 Savage and Young Nudy, but with a growly, punkish urgency, who can’t relate to a mixtape titled, simply, “F- School.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2024

His inscrutable glares and theatrical pauses are the intangibles that make this show unique.

From Salon Oct. 1, 2023

She glares at me and throws me a few pages of new character descriptions.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Back on Tasman Drive, tourists excitedly posed for pictures next to a speed bump sign as a grumbling resident glared at them.

From Barron's Apr. 30, 2026

After a dreadful service game handed an immediate second-set break to Svitolina, Sabalenka glared at her team, stomped to her seat and then broke back at the first opportunity.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

As the SDF convoy rolled by, men and boys glared from storefronts.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

When prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked Pecker why Trump was grateful to him for hiding the affairs, Pecker paused momentarily as Trump glared at him from across the courtroom.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2024

Carr glared at Mal, all thin lips and flared nostrils, but before he could say anything, there was a commotion to their left.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

They’re peppy and fruity … and a glaring recession indicator.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

By late July, as Hearn’s defense counsel moved for release of the grand jury transcripts to expose glaring prosecutorial irregularities, Pirro’s case collapsed.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

The most glaring example came against the Cardinals in early May, when he threw six shutout innings without recording a punch out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

The glaring light is practically a character in “Sisters of the Midnight Sun,” Ms. Stevens’s compelling account of a disturbing murder case she worked on in the early 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

I closed my laptop and scooted away from it, glaring at the machine.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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