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lighthouse

[lahyt-hous] / ˈlaɪtˌhaʊs /


NOUN
Very lights
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That leaves the Fed’s deliberations comparable to “trying to bring a boat to shore in the pitch black and having the lighthouse go dark,” Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said this week.

From The Wall Street Journal

The stretch of sand, the salt haze, a spike of cliff and a scarlet lighthouse.

From BBC

As we scampered back along the coastline toward the lighthouse, our footfalls timed in a staccato dance with the incoming tide, I heard Fisher’s chirpy voice.

From New York Times

What do the Point Reyes lighthouse, French chemist Louis Pasteur and the Grateful Dead all have in common?

From Los Angeles Times

McCarthy celebrated Masaccio’s frescoes for their “spatial immensity, deep, massive volumes, and implacable candour of vision, which sweeps across the panels in aerial perspective like the searching ray of a lighthouse.”

From New York Times