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To illuminate his dark subject matter, Fiedler adopts a punchy, aggressive prose replete with antitheses, exclamation marks, capitalized terminology and bold generalizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The documents also illuminate a glaring contrast between the training of Marines and that of immigration agents, who have been accused repeatedly of using unnecessary force against peaceful protesters, bystanders and immigrants during enforcement operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

"There is a pressing need for well-designed research projects in humans, utilising labelled creatine to generate relevant data and illuminate the grey areas of our knowledge about these compounds," Dr. Boroujerdi explains.

From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026

May's full Moon is set to illuminate the night sky on Friday 1 May.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

I hope I will remember what it felt like to really see those specks of light that illuminate the darkness.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

It’s worth thinking about because it illuminates the principles that we should be applying to questions of governance in this country.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

Mr. Hargreaves, a British journalist who has published several books on World War II Germany, offers a well-written and carefully researched account that illuminates all sides of these grinding battles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

As the afternoon sunshine pours in through a stained-glass window, it illuminates a century-old design of a man dribbling a football across a pitch.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

While we’re on the topic of Brin and Lake Tahoe, let me share another early anecdote that illuminates the mindset I’m referring to, and that I wrote about way back in 1999.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

The light veers behind him and illuminates the capsized workbench, the crushed case of their radio.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The lion's mane corresponds to the inner region of a dust shell illuminated by the white dwarf at the center.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

The eatery features Midcentury Modern touches with curved cherry wood walls and paneled ceilings, as well as illuminated white onyx Corian surfaces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The July full Moon, also known as the Buck Moon, illuminated the sky over the UK on Wednesday night.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Between them lies a globe illuminated by a view of Potosí, the domain they all shared, if unequally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Ah, just the young man I wanted to see,” he said, his face illuminated by candlelight.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

A sensible reflex, but it also means the long-awaited payoff never quite materializes—an underwhelming finish to an otherwise engaging and illuminating argument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

But the film’s screenplay — a biting, laugh-a-minute wonder penned by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack — shrewdly plays with genre conventions and audience expectations, illuminating more depth with every other sentence.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

“It’s a special day, for our Jota, who is up there illuminating us,” Ronaldo later told Portugal’s Sport TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

For Grant, the Square Mile is its own character in the American story, and it offers an illuminating window into how a young US might have looked at a turning point in history.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Here, the results of recent molecular biological studies are illuminating in linking germs to the rise of food production, in Eurasia much more than in the Americas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond