brilliant
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A new production of “Carmen” could not be darker, nor more brilliant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
And the French pianist Michel Petrucciani, who, as a brilliant and precocious teenager in the 1980s, coaxed Mr. Lloyd out of a decade-long hiatus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
A solar eclipse, the Perseid meteor shower, brilliant Venus, and a deep partial lunar eclipse will make August an unusually eventful month for skywatchers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
She says having a Play Street right outside her front door is "brilliant" and has led to making new connections with her neighbours.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
A brilliant moon hung high in the sky, a moon that could light my dog’s way home.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Five days a week, 14 hours a day, he squints through nine newspapers and bends over his typewriter like a jeweler, chipping and polishing at the hard little brilliants for his program.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants.
From Time Magazine Archive
She finally disclosed that she had made it herself out of some old tulle and brilliants she "found around the house" and it "represented absolutely nothing at all."
From Time Magazine Archive
My heart bounded with delight, when I at last saw the brilliants flash in my dark hair, mark the contour of my neck, and circle a waist slender as the form of a sylph.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
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