shine
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“He always allowed the musicians around him to shine in their strengths, generous with the spotlight and appreciative of what each brought to the music,” Steiling continued in the band’s Facebook post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
They instead pursue a slow-and-steady approach that is expected to shine only over the very long term.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
But it’s not like Altman doesn’t see the value in ascribing just a little bit of humanlike shine to A.I. models.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Only about 500 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was roughly 3% of its current age, some of the first stars and galaxies had already begun to shine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
His hair was neither long nor short, and his shoes had been polished to exactly the shine that attracts no comment.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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A laser shines onto the crystal, interacting with the thorium nuclei inside.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The low-basis shares are where this strategy shines.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
"She loves everybody. She's inclusive. She's empathetic, she's a light, she shines bright for everyone. I keep telling myself I'm done crying. I thought I was cried out."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
As the luminous, sweet and steel-spined Doralee, she doesn’t just hold her own, she shines, shattering the same sexist assumptions that often plagued Dolly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
I’m happy when I see him, and happier still if the sun shines when we’re together.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Although the passing game has yet to take flight, the Bruins’ ground attack shined again with 214 yards and four touchdowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Though the rate of growth in the number of millionaires continues to be striking, UBS shined a light on adults with wealth between $5 million and $100 million.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
By giving an episode to each of our lead four characters, we could use their view of the island to make sure the complexity of Golding’s telling shined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, details tucked into the SpaceX IPO prospectus made public in late May shined light onto early steps by the company to rent computing power to customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Where the sun shined all day long, and at night, crickets sang song after song.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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The weather in this part of the world can be downright vengeful, but the next day, as we drove deeper into the Westfjords, the sun shone with genuine warmth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In the former work, Ms. Nadon shone with poetic grandeur; in the latter, she exuded introspective mystery and a luminous presence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
To others he is a heroic whistleblower who shone a light on the darker side of the beautiful game.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Soccer’s much ballyhooed “golden generation,” it was a performance that hardly shone and a sign that whatever progress the federation has made over the past two decades hasn’t gone as far as hoped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Even though it was night, the moon shone enough for me to see the relief on Samir’s face that the inn was where it was supposed to be.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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He was truly my shining star, my shining prince.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Surging Treasury yields have begun to hammer parts of the stock market that might easily be overlooked, especially with the spotlight once again shining brightly on a small group of glamorous tech companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"It's such a vibe at Glastonbury- everyone's so happy and free-spirited. You're just on a constant high from friends, music and the sun is usually shining".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“She was a shining example of how to overcome adversity. It showed me my little problems aren’t as bad as they seem if she can overcome that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
He listened with shining eyes to tales of wonders he had himself seen—once, long ago—and would not see again.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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