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scintillate

[sin-tl-eyt] / ˈsɪn tlˌeɪt /
VERB
twinkle
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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Liverpool certainly didn't scintillate with their display in the Midlands but they showed the resilience of champions.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2026

Space telescopes see the universe undistorted by Earth’s atmosphere, whose shifting air causes stars to scintillate, or twinkle, and whose gas molecules block many wavelengths entirely, including much of the infrared.

From Science Magazine Dec. 14, 2022

Its luminous blue twilight sky and inky shadows scintillate while New Yorkers with little skull faces go about their business.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2021

Serving that theme means not adding scintillating fictional details just to scintillate and, more importantly, not perpetuating harmful stereotypes.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 13, 2019

Voltaire's tales are, in narrative form, criticisms of belief or opinion which scintillate with ironic wit.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse

Kevin De Bruyne scintillated throughout, with Riyad Mahrez closely behind.

From The Guardian Dec. 21, 2019

The American consumer world is thrilled into electric activity, the rubbish scintillated and redeemed.

From The New Yorker Jan. 8, 2017

The Dutch midfielder’s added-time header came as City scintillated before the break and seriously ran out of gas after it.

From The Guardian Nov. 5, 2016

It was as large as half a mat; it was multicolored, and it scintillated.

From Time Magazine Archive

What struggle there was in him between Nature and Grace in this interval, I cannot tell: only singular gleams scintillated in his eyes, and strange shadows passed over his face.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Probably most impressive, a category closely followed by economists known as real final sales rose at a scintillating 3.9% annual pace — the highest reading in more than three years.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli took a scintillating pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix, leaving team-mate and title rival George Russell trailing in fourth, more than 0.5 seconds adrift.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

For the next hour, the two men engage in a scintillating conversation about their shared past and the lives they’ve lived since their last encounter.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

"It's nearly invisible to the naked eye but our instruments give rise to a vision of swaths of scintillating corona glowing as thunderstorms pass overhead," McFarland said.

From Science Daily Apr. 21, 2026

"Is this the kind of scintillating conversation we're going to have now that we don't have any secrets?"

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell




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