beacon
Example Sentences
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Texas’ relatively low taxes and light regulation have been a beacon for many California companies, and most of Chevron’s competitors are based there.
From Los Angeles Times
Aurora appear as bright, swirling beacons of light that range in colour from red to purple and green to blue.
From BBC
“They see national greatness entirely through the lens of dollars, and not the lens through which America has long been viewed—as a beacon of hope.”
The country was seen as a beacon of political stability — and a bulwark against the Soviet Union — during the 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times
During the abolitionist movement and the war itself, the North Star became a practical element of enslaved African-Americans’ looking to the heavens, a beacon of freedom and hope.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
