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moonlit

[moon-lit] / ˈmunˌlɪt /




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Fashionable portraits and moonlit landscapes back home, then success with candlelit interiors and portraits of Wright’s friends in the Lunar Society of Enlightenment scientists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

A car crashes at a dangerous bend on a clifftop road in Anglesey, North Wales, on a moonlit night in January 1909.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2024

There, in the moonlit shadow of that mighty steel sculpture, I declared my love and loss and said goodbye.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

The cover illustrates the field guns embedded in the mountain with a moonlit ocean and a couple of fighter planes buzzing the area.

From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2023

“I can’t,” she croaked, looking at his moonlit profile, his thick shoulders and broad chest, the tufts of gray hair protruding from his open collar.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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