illumination

The light from occasional thunderstorms often provides the only illumination.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Short came to embody the inverse of that picture, the shaded gloom lurking in places that escape sunshiny illumination.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Another important feature is their ability to function under ordinary illumination.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Maybe a young Mexican singer could shed some illumination, I thought, before sending a somewhat incoherent email to Silvana Estrada.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

He no longer tried to fight, but acted stunned as if for the first time there was some illumination, some comprehension of the enormity of the resistance in a once placid kingdom.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

He left school at the age of 14 and worked in a variety of jobs, including electrical work for the famous Blackpool illuminations, before going on to become a Post Office engineer with BT.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Signer John Adams hoped that future generations would celebrate America’s birthday with “bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Marine life that most people never see floated into view, including delicate comb jellies with pulsing fairy-light illuminations along their sides.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Or, to paraphrase a Virginia Woolf line from “To the Lighthouse” that Rhys invoked earlier: What gets us through are “little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

The dog barked furiously in our direction, but the soldiers were all staring at the illuminations above.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson