illuminate

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

Papatsanis used ultrviolet light to illuminate mushrooms known as "beautiful bonnets" growing from a decaying log on the lower slopes of Mount Olympus in Greece.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

But this year may also illuminate broader forces that continue to resonate long after votes are counted.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

Together, these observations reveal how jets can alter or illuminate gas at tremendous distances from a galaxy's center.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Only a fraction of the candles are burning, but the sight is no less resplendent as they illuminate the twisting black branches, casting dancing shadows over the striped walls.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

A laser illuminates a cell, causing tiny structures inside it to scatter some of the incoming light.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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

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

From somewhere a light illuminates the rich paper texture of the screen.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

Elsewhere, King Gillette Ranch’s “Night of the Jack” is a milelong trail filled with pumpkin delights and illuminated installations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Oxygen ions produce bright emission lines when illuminated by massive stars, which makes them comparatively easy to detect.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

The panel is filled with illuminated diamond shapes, a longstanding motif in the company’s designs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The screen was dark, but a spotlight illuminated center stage.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

Rather than behaving like a lamp illuminating everything around it, the jet acts more like a concentrated beam that causes gas to glow along its path.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

I heard the Proms concerts, where Beethoven bloomed with illuminating lyricism, color, rhythmic versatility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

They broke into cheers and applause, cheered again when the eclipse ended, and once more an hour later when the sun set, a burnished ocher illuminating Léon’s cathedral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Flames tipped the tops of slim white tapers, illuminating rough walls muffled by tapestries and old portraits in which the painted eyes of their subjects glinted like chips of glass.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee