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beacon

[bee-kuhn] / ˈbi kən /


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It’s got so much potential to be that beacon again, that leader in the world.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026

Two and a half centuries later, America is still a beacon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

Bonds are an excellent barometer of broader investor sentiment and usually act as an early beacon for rougher seas ahead.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

Dyer's great-grandmother said her grandson had been the family's "final beacon of hope" after a "relentless sequence of tragedies".

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

The beacon would have had another significant implication to an informed mind like Eratos- thenes’.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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