lantern
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After a gesture to follow, I was handed a lantern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
However, for now, this is China's lantern town, and its residents are proud that it is known this way.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Citrus lingers — oranges, grapefruit, tangerines — holding onto the last of their brightness like a lantern carried through fog.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
Held mid-December each year, the festival acts as a platform to highlight the region's famed lantern industry, which first started more than 100 years ago.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
A little while later, she came back out toting a lantern and a big shoe box.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
The plant belongs to Thismia, a genus of tiny species sometimes known as "fairy lanterns."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
In the wholesale markets of Yiwu, the Chinese city known for supplying the world with inexpensive goods, buyers can find prayer rugs, Quran stands, modest clothing, Ramadan lanterns and crescent-shaped decorations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Akari Maezono, who is in her 30s, held brightly painted paper lanterns calling for peace.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
On a workbench nearby, sea mine-shaped lamps stand on metal casts of hawk feet alongside caged bubble glass lanterns that appear as if they might burst from internal pressure.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
At night these houses glowed with the flickering yellow light of kerosene lanterns that lent the district an aura considered quaint—by those who didn’t have to live there.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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