lightening
Example Sentences
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He explained why he had passed along the message to Walters: “If he’d just own up to what he’d done, I might talk to somebody about lightening his sentence a little bit.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Levanon said he can’t prove it yet, but he’s convinced it’s the lightening speed and adoption of artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Still, even when dealing with corpses, Walker’s characters can deftly deliver a one-liner or a bad pun when the mood needs lightening; she doesn’t really think along drama versus comedy lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Gupta, Smyth and Armlovich have all publicly opposed a rent freeze, unless some other action is taken to ease landlord expenses like lightening property taxes or insurance costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
But Harry had no possibility of extracting the wand concealed under his robes without being noticed by the Death Eaters, who marched on either side of them through the slowly lightening darkness....
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
