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coruscate

[kawr-uh-skayt, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˌskeɪt, ˈkɒr- /


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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

One teacher's mind will fairly coruscate with points of connection between the new lesson and the circumstances of the children's other experience.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James

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

Its lustrous white satin billowed from the waist into a crinoline that coruscated with flowers of pearls and leaves of gold.

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

Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white, pink and green.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without a sound, the leaves shone and the grass coruscated along the miles of the escarpment.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Although she says she will support the PM from the backbenches, her letter of resignation delivered a coruscating critique.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

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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