brightest
Example Sentences
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The main airport in Nashville, Tennessee, the home of country music, is to be renamed after one of its brightest stars, the late Dolly Parton who died last month.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Set Flynn free, and return him to Hollywood as one of its brightest stars,” Giesler argued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Growing up in Berlin, he collected academic awards and distinguished himself as one of the country’s brightest young scientific minds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"If a galaxy were a city, the brightest stars would be the skyscrapers that immediately catch your eye from afar," said lead author Chloe Cheng, a recent doctoral graduate of Leiden University.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The best and the brightest Wall Street traders are quitting their big firms to work at hedge funds, where they can make not tens but hundreds of millions.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
