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  • verb Present participle of corruscate.

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Examples

  • One day, I will look up the word "corruscating" in a dictionary.

    The creation of Brown-man Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Rashad so good in the corruscating play Ruined has the most fun as the maid Cheryl, getting to deliver some of the night's funnier lines and put everyone in their place with her righteous anger.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: "Stick Fly" Doesn't Stick Michael Giltz 2011

  • Rashad so good in the corruscating play Ruined has the most fun as the maid Cheryl, getting to deliver some of the night's funnier lines and put everyone in their place with her righteous anger.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: "Stick Fly" Doesn't Stick Michael Giltz 2011

  • It's a devastating collection -- or, rather, corruscating is perhaps the best term.

    Decade: Some Books 2010

  • Flo thats a corruscating comment and much appreciated

    Where are you going to my pretty Socialist ? Newmania 2007

  • In his article, Field is corruscating about the New Deal which Labour brought in in 1997 to try and reduce youth unemployment.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Mark Reckons 2009

  • In his article, Field is corruscating about the New Deal which Labour brought in in 1997 to try and reduce youth unemployment.

    Debased Debate Mark Reckons 2009

  • Why not run off and squat on CiF for an indefinite period of time and allow us to recover from your corruscating wit.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • I did it because I was angry enough to care, and because anger is an energy, and angry energy is better than sullen silence and isolating, corruscating despair.

    Hope Rachel 2007

  • It presents many of Herzog's favorite themes and character types, making it feel like a cousin to Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo, but it is a gentler film, more hopeful and less corruscating in tone, but no less powerful in its portrayal of obsession, vision, and nature.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

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