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enlightenment

[en-lahyt-n-muhnt] / ɛnˈlaɪt n mənt /


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The blue trail of the title is how people describe getting snail-stoned to find the path to enlightenment.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Supporting a plurality of religious beliefs, along with the freedom to hold none at all, was part of the brilliant enlightenment they wrote into the Constitution.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

But “The Singing Word: 168 Years of Poetry from The Atlantic” is lovely, both as a collection and in the pleasure and enlightenment readers will derive from individual poems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

She called one friend after another, but none of them had seen the news story the night before either, and they could offer only moral support, not enlightenment.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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