illuminate

Although the universe had become transparent to much of the radiation left over from the Big Bang, stars had not yet formed to illuminate the cosmos.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

As night falls, candlelight and offerings will illuminate the park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Officials also don’t publish a monthly labor-force participation rate, which would illuminate the health of the labor market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

What, if anything, about this documentary may help illuminate a few things for people, regardless of their political leanings, as we approach the midterms?

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

The writers then dispersed in search of the stories that would illuminate, sharpen, or possibly contradict, their working hypotheses.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

"This unity of hearts, which we describe with the motto 'One Nation, Two States,' is an everlasting torch that draws strength from our shared past and illuminates our future."

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

For this, they used light-sheet microscopy, an imaging technique that makes biological tissue transparent and illuminates it with a thin layer of laser light.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Subtitled “The Women of the Viking World,” Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir’s study illuminates the reality of the female experience in late Iron Age Scandinavia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

For many fans “The Mad King” illuminates a time in Westeros history that has only been hinted at in the books, and explored in more limited ways onscreen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

But the next button illuminates my mouth and things begin to improve.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Seven of them are on display, cleverly illuminated from behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Gloria Molina Grand Park transforms into an illuminated, sacred civic sanctuary for the 2026 presentation of Downtown Día de los Muertos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Adjusting which fin receives light and how frequently it is illuminated allows the team to control both its speed and direction.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Residents across the UK were left stunned as the sky was illuminated by the spectacular colours of the Northern Lights on Friday and Saturday evenings.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The figure took yet another step closer, finally illuminated in the moonlight.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

“A Red Badge of Cotton” is especially illuminating on the hands that worked with the cotton once it arrived in the North.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Millions across India are set to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, illuminating homes, temples, offices and streets with oil lamps and colourful lights to symbolise the triumph of light over darkness.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

It is Mungiu’s sharpest and most illuminating maneuver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mysteries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

His fingers flew as he typed in his password, the blue-white screen of the laptop illuminating his pale face.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken