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  • adverb In a coruscating manner.

Etymologies

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coruscating +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • How can you not return my calls when I called you "coruscatingly brilliant" in Time?

    Coruscating on Thin Ice 2009

  • I use "coruscatingly brilliant" because it was what a columnist early on called Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a figure in John F. Kennedy's White House and the focus of much, and deserved, praise.

    Coruscating on Thin Ice 2009

  • Yours truly was invited to take part in the third of these webwide authorial summits, and you can read the coruscatingly collated results… …Here!

    2009 March 13 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • JFK saw it and laughed: "Just remember, a hundred thousand votes the other way and we'd all be coruscatingly stupid."

    Coruscating on Thin Ice 2009

  • Yours truly was invited to take part in the third of these webwide authorial summits, and you can read the coruscatingly collated results…

    BookGeek Panel: Authors Get On Down With The Punditry « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • The standard orange habanero has a distinctive fruity, floral aroma, but McGrath's Bhuts have an earthier taste; they are coruscatingly hot, but not noticeably more so than a habanero.

    latimes.com - News 2011

  • Polly Harvey has forged a career as the blacksmith of unhappiness, mostly her own and of a coruscatingly personal nature.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • This coruscatingly brilliant comic novel "showed" me the world of the intellect in much the same way that

    About Last Night About Last Night 2010

  • This coruscatingly brilliant comic novel "showed" me the world of the intellect in much the same way that

    ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News 2010

  • This coruscatingly brilliant comic novel "showed" me the world of the intellect in much the same way that

    ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News 2010

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