shine
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I buy more every payday, rain or shine.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Everyone at Naka Market is so proud to see you shine on one of the biggest stages in the world," its post reads.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The dispersed ash eventually settles out of the atmosphere, permitting the Sun’s rays to shine fully on the surface again – reviving agriculture and ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Savanna Stones of the internet are losing their shine, which is part of the reason Zand’s profile has struck a nerve.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Rise and shine, sleepyheads. I made pancakes,” someone said.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
The low-basis shares are where this strategy shines.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Where the restaurant really shines, though, is its three-course brunch.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
As the luminous, sweet and steel-spined Doralee, she doesn’t just hold her own, she shines, shattering the same sexist assumptions that often plagued Dolly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Bothwell recommends standing near a tree as the eclipse can create dozens of crescent-shaped images on the ground as light shines through the gaps between the leaves — an effect similar to...
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But the trees don’t make a canopy; rather, the sky is open and sun shines like God’s or an angel’s light.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Though the rate of growth in the number of millionaires continues to be striking, UBS shined a light on adults with wealth between $5 million and $100 million.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Yet he made the bulls more prominent, and shined the sun on the white one in the center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
The instability of the water shined a light on areas of my body that were weaker than others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, details tucked into the SpaceX IPO prospectus made public in late May shined light onto early steps by the company to rent computing power to customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
About a thousand years before Europe discovered toothpaste, Khosrou stepped onto a magic carpet that shined brighter than a meadow in May.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
Soccer’s much ballyhooed “golden generation,” it was a performance that hardly shone and a sign that whatever progress the federation has made over the past two decades hasn’t gone as far as hoped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
He also lauded Irish golfer Shane Lowry, who has shone at the Open so far, and Rory McIlroy, the Northern Irish defending champion who has previously played golf with the American leader.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
The jump in U.S. borrowing costs—and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s intervention to bring them back down—has shone a spotlight not just on America’s growing debt problem but the world’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But Parton’s golden charisma shone ever brighter over the 218 episodes she appeared in until her departure in 1974.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Its wings too were scaled; scales so fine that delicate pink membranes shone through on the underside.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Washington has shown little appetite to fix those problems while the sun is shining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“This area has suffered within the last 24 hours from its most serious condition in years. … However, it has passed and the sun is shining …“
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Not long after sunset, Venus will appear as an intensely bright point of light low above the western horizon, shining more brightly than any star around it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Dubbed a "one-woman WikiLeaks", Caruana Galizia had exposed corruption at the highest level in the country, shining a spotlight on murky links between Malta's business and political elites.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
I had always felt happy in this little shop with its tiny voices and shelves of small shining faces.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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