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incandescence

[in-kuhn-des-uhns] / ˌɪn kənˈdɛs əns /














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This profile from Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill is a bid to reclaim the valuable heat of Pallenberg’s incandescence, while never shielding viewers from her life’s lasting burn marks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2024

Monroe is a star performer, overshadowing similar montages Avedon made of Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford, who lacked their predecessor’s halogen incandescence.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

These fragments themselves pancaked, creating a series of brief but powerful flashes of light as they heated to incandescence.

From Scientific American • Feb. 15, 2023

Patrick Mahomes’s incandescence, Travis Kelce’s reliability and Reid’s guidance have planted the Chiefs atop the NFL.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023

The molten stone poured out in a stream of dazzling incandescence across the road; the asbestos rollers came and went; at the tail of an insulated watering cart the steam rose in white clouds.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley