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It may also illuminate some of the ancient chemical steps that eventually contributed to the emergence of life on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

They play with perspective, color, space and time to illuminate postwar American tensions, be they racial, political or existential.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Several local children with the condition joined him for a ceremony to illuminate the building in the campaign colour, teal.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

“I am so glad to see you here this evening, because this afternoon my optometrist gave me eye drops and I couldn’t see a thing! Before I officially illuminate our Olympic torch...”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

The setting sun illuminates the bottoms of those clouds and creates the beautiful sunsets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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 stage illuminates, the bass kicks in and your favourite musician appears on stage.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

I switch off the light and admire the way the candle illuminates the steam.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

The appearance of the arena was immediately striking, with an infield painted black with the intention of directing the audience's focus to the illuminated live action.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Healthy mice instinctively prefer darker environments and avoid brightly illuminated spaces.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Her signature maxim — “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” — drew laughs for decades even as it illuminated the unflinching honesty of her creative approach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

After nabbing a plush hot dog and a red-and-white rabbit, Yokerathinam flashed his prizes into his phone’s camera, illuminated by the portable light he’d attached to a neighboring machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

A face swam before my vision, barely illuminated by the moonlight—dark intense eyes, unkempt curls spilling over a brow furrowed in worry.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

The sun was shining into the kitchen, illuminating everything: Ulysses's whiskers, the typewriter keys, her father's upturned and smiling face, and her mother's astonished and disbelieving one.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo