illumination
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The Buck Moon is set to reach its peak illumination at 15:36 BST, however this will occur just below the horizon.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Despite the wet forecast, their expectations for illumination were high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Even Apollo astronauts didn't see the Orientale basin completely because of their orbit and illumination conditions.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
By simply changing the level of illumination, they could prompt particles to assemble into crystals or break apart again.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026
Whatever skivvying or humble nursing she did, and however well or hard she did it, whatever illumination in tutorial she had relinquished, or lifetime moment on a college lawn, she would never undo the damage.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Signer John Adams hoped that future generations would celebrate America’s birthday with “bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Marine life that most people never see floated into view, including delicate comb jellies with pulsing fairy-light illuminations along their sides.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Or, to paraphrase a Virginia Woolf line from “To the Lighthouse” that Rhys invoked earlier: What gets us through are “little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
The illuminations set off from the London Eye, and barges moored in a central area of the river featured more than 12,000 fireworks.
From DOGO News ● Jan. 2, 2024
The dog barked furiously in our direction, but the soldiers were all staring at the illuminations above.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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