illuminations

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Marine life that most people never see floated into view, including delicate comb jellies with pulsing fairy-light illuminations along their sides.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

Portraits take on a religious air, becoming icons, and landscapes read more as medieval illuminations than lands of make-believe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Or, to paraphrase a Virginia Woolf line from “To the Lighthouse” that Rhys invoked earlier: What gets us through are “little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

The illuminations set off from the London Eye, and barges moored in a central area of the river featured more than 12,000 fireworks.

From DOGO News • Jan. 2, 2024

For many visitors these nightly illuminations were their first encounter with electricity.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson