enlightenment
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McDade says institutions purchased the book because, during the enlightenment, their members had a "great curiosity" about the wider world.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
In the mid-1970s, Florida began a period of environmental enlightenment.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
But if history is any guide, it means a new enlightenment is overdue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
That was not, in Hobsbawm’s analysis, a straight-up clash between good and evil or enlightenment and darkness; he was a non-dogmatic Marxist, always attuned to the nuanced dialectical relationship between historical forces.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 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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