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illumine

verb as in light up

verb as in explain

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The lighting illumines each river in brilliantly bright backdrop colors.

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“She is the one of course that I am trying to get. … To mark her off, to describe, to illumine, to celebrate, to get rid of her.”

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There was a din of crickets outside, and the pauseless roar of the river, and the stately world was illumined with pearly moonlight; but inside the log it was dark and hushed, like a crypt.

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The fog of war obscures even the most illumined conscience.

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Rather, my time with Jackson illumined a generative confusion to how she understood abstraction in art and life.

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