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enlightenment

[en-lahyt-n-muhnt] / ɛnˈlaɪt n mənt /


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“What she was doing was not about enlightenment or operating in a different dimension,” Gujarati said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In one tense scene with her white colleagues, Cosey winces at their version of historical enlightenment — the reclamation project is moving at a horse-drawn carriage’s pace.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

That was not, in Hobsbawm’s analysis, a straight-up clash between good and evil or enlightenment and darkness; he was a non-dogmatic Marxist, always attuned to the nuanced dialectical relationship between historical forces.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

You feel both invincible and yet targeted, as if the world—as if the universe—doesn’t want you to feel this dizzying enlightenment.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman




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