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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coruscate.

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Examples

  • Taruskin coruscates Johnson: “To cast aesthetic preferences as moral choices at the dawn of the twenty-first century is an obscenity.”

    Archive 2007-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Taruskin coruscates Johnson: “To cast aesthetic preferences as moral choices at the dawn of the twenty-first century is an obscenity.”

    The censures of the carping world Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Not only is there a cultural baton passed from Babylon to Albion in the form of dub poetry, but the whole collection coruscates with the energy of resistance to injustice on all fronts.

    June « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • Not only is there a cultural baton passed from Babylon to Albion in the form of dub poetry, but the whole collection coruscates with the energy of resistance to injustice on all fronts.

    Babylon is burning « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • The roar of traffic coruscates at best when wind is westerly

    A Murky Afternoon In Camperdown Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

  • The roar of traffic coruscates at best when wind is westerly

    Archive 2009-03-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

  • As in, the light coruscates over the surface in a watery chiaroscuro ... or you could use the two year old approach and just point and say, "ooooh, pretty!"

    What's That Word...? 2005

  • A poet may begin by thinking about a tortoise, or a locomotive, or a piece of sirloin, and in one whisk of Time his mind has shot up to the conceptions of Eternity, Transportation, and Nourishment: his cortex coruscates and suppurates with abstract thought; words assail him in hordes, and in a flash he is down among them, overborne and fighting for his life.

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

  • This is what the genius does, in whose hands a given topic coruscates and grows.

    Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876

  • Robson reviews Michael Wood's book on Yeats and Laurie Penny coruscates the baby boomer generation.

    New Statesman 2010

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