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For many though, for his prediction to come true, Lamine Yamal was going to have to set the tournament alight in his first ever World Cup.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Kylian Mbappe: Has set this World Cup alight with his finishing - but not this game.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Witnesses said the fire may have been started by a power line that fell and set scrubland alight but there was no official confirmation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

The cathedral, set alight in the overnight attacks, was almost completely destroyed during World War II and rebuilt only in the 1990s.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

Jesper cocked his head to one side, gray eyes alight.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Lindsay Hale’s husband, Kai, has been dead for only 12 weeks when she alights in a cold winter landscape that she no longer recognizes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

McCartney’s musical time machine eventually alights on “Salesman Saint,” a reference to his father, Jim Mac, who died in 1976.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

When a butterfly briefly alights on a flower, fast action is essential.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

He never alights on an answer, but the search has prompted some of his best music to date.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

A yellow-shafted flicker chisels for an insect in a tree, and a kingfisher alights on an aspen bough.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

While I was visiting Cindy a few days later, a young cardinal alighted at the feeder and met our gaze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Here countless celebrities and industry titans alighted as they came, or returned, to L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

Not surprisingly, by the time that the couple alighted at the Astrodome in 1974, they were headed for divorce proceedings.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2024

The Royal Samoan Police Band began playing as the couple alighted and met local officials.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024

With a swift wing beat she alighted above a transformer on an electric utility pole.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Earlier this year, China’s social media was alit with videos of jobless university graduates visiting temples to seek the blessings of the gods.

From Reuters ● Sep. 30, 2023

Just as the animal was nearly out of sight, it flew back upriver, alit on the water, and floated back down—over and over again.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2023

More than 75,000 spectators attended the Matildas’ quarterfinal victory and the Sydney Opera House was alit in the yellow and green team colors.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

But of all the miracle works performed by the McDonald Corporation, you have alit upon two of the finest.

From Fox News ● Sep. 3, 2020

When he got to the water trough, Matt alit and filled it from the pump as Tam Lin had always done.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

A premise that had sounded a bit ridiculous—a trout mistaking my cast for an alighting insect—had been proven real.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Transport officials urged fans to travel by tram to St Peter's Square and Victoria but to avoid alighting at Deansgate.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2023

Visitors never forgot the roar of the big birds alighting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Gladys's gaze wandered around the room, taking in the clutter of new toys before alighting fondly on the shelf.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez