searchlight
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During the night, a helicopter flew over the French capital's Place de la Republique, one of the epicentres of the unrest, sweeping a powerful searchlight across the square to monitor compliance with the curfew.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
At night, crews trained a searchlight across dark waters infested with so-called growlers—low-floating chunks of ice the size of trucks that can puncture ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
The task is a bit like discerning a field of fireflies around a central, massive searchlight.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2024
But her searchlight also finds figures who are perhaps less than household names.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
The boat came nearer, the searchlight sweeping to left and right, almost on course to hit the island, but at the last minute it turned a little to starboard and moved past.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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