lightening
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“It’s lightening a load on your shoulders,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
He explained why he had passed along the message to Walters: “If he’d just own up to what he’d done, I might talk to somebody about lightening his sentence a little bit.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Still, even when dealing with corpses, Walker’s characters can deftly deliver a one-liner or a bad pun when the mood needs lightening; she doesn’t really think along drama versus comedy lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Lindsay said she was "deeply concerned" about the social factors fuelling demand for skin lightening products, warning that "colourism and harmful beauty standards can create vulnerability".
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
I watch him so close, I begin to feel a lightening in the head.
From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
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