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lighthouse

[lahyt-hous] / ˈlaɪtˌhaʊs /


NOUN
Very lights
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The 2025/26 away kit, manufactured by sportswear firm Hummel, features a repeating geometric pattern showing the lighthouse, viewed through a circular design resembling the sculpture's aperture.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

I walk a frozen Bothnian Gulf at Nallikari, an obscured lighthouse, a delinquent lifeguard stand, and makeshift saunas stand on white expanse like archaeology.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

They spin rapidly and generate intense magnetic fields, producing focused beams of radio waves that sweep across space like the beam of a lighthouse.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

A short hike to the beach afforded views of the starkly angular lighthouse known as the Charleston Light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

I stood watching the lighthouse beam wheel around and wash over everything—a million seabirds sleeping in the pitted cliffs; giant rocks exposed by the low tide; a rotted skiff drowning in the sand.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs




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