illuminate
Example Sentences
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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
"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
Sierra stepped carefully toward Bennie and then watched her friend’s phone light illuminate the ancient, rusty gears of Manny’s printing press.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Vocabulary lists containing illuminate
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