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Black holes themselves do not emit light, but a TDE temporarily supplies material that can illuminate the region around one.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Several local children with the condition joined him for a ceremony to illuminate the building in the campaign colour, teal.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

A few additional points may illuminate the puzzle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

The museum’s annual Costume Institute show, housed in a new exhibition space, pairs garments with works of art from its collection to illuminate the far-reaching relationship between style and the body.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

Without a moon, they see only what the insectile headlamps illuminate: fifteen feet of granular, ice-blue surface, crisscrossed by tire tracks.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

It’s worth thinking about because it illuminates the principles that we should be applying to questions of governance in this country.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

This group portrait, by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, a British-born history professor at the University of Virginia, illuminates the mistakes of Britain’s war leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

While we’re on the topic of Brin and Lake Tahoe, let me share another early anecdote that illuminates the mindset I’m referring to, and that I wrote about way back in 1999.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

The stage illuminates, the bass kicks in and your favourite musician appears on stage.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

“Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark. Besides, you never know who is watching.”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Her signature maxim — “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” — drew laughs for decades even as it illuminated the unflinching honesty of her creative approach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

After nabbing a plush hot dog and a red-and-white rabbit, Yokerathinam flashed his prizes into his phone’s camera, illuminated by the portable light he’d attached to a neighboring machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The night tours, which run until 11:00 pm, are sold out and tourists on one visit this week spoke of a "magical" and "romantic" atmosphere in the illuminated monument.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

"A large plane flying overhead where somebody could see it, with the shades up and windows illuminated, could tell somebody that it's a particular type of aircraft," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

There she was, a spectral figure illuminated by a sad, wavering light.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

I heard the Proms concerts, where Beethoven bloomed with illuminating lyricism, color, rhythmic versatility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

It was illuminating to hear the period-instrument orchestra—led by Geoffrey Loff, who also played keyboard—with its softer strings and prominent bassoons, though the continuo cellist struggled with coordination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

These are often bound up under one general heading of "polarisation", but it's been illuminating to unpack them.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

But the film’s screenplay — a biting, laugh-a-minute wonder penned by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack — shrewdly plays with genre conventions and audience expectations, illuminating more depth with every other sentence.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Their beams pierce the dark, illuminating the interior of our car in shifting strobes.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day