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- noun Plural form of
illuminate .
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Examples
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Something about what the whole ordeal illuminates is disturbing.
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McGrath again illuminates these notions of the intoxicating myth:
Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca 2008
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The terrible love story that this book illuminates is (alas, for one writing a short column) also highly convoluted.
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By delving into these redoubts of gossip and speculation, Larkin illuminates the Burmese art of kaw la ha la (rumors) and the skewed worldview that so many people denied opportunity for movement, expression, and education, through circumscribed thought and action, are reduced to.
Reading Tea Leaves 2004
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The terrible love story that this book illuminates is (alas, for one writing a short column) also highly convoluted.
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91In saying this, the bulletin illuminates the point that ways of conceptualizing knowledge and property are epistemological matters.
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This report "attempts to define successes ... which have not yet been realized" - in other words illuminates W's failures as our protector, but red staters are kind of dense.
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His pitch is flawless and his sense of expression illuminates these self-written lyrics in a way no other singer could.
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The active intellect "illuminates" the object of sense, rendering it intelligible somewhat as light renders colours visible.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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"Through these interviews we get a portrait of a Third World society and we also chart a big swindle that kind of illuminates how corruption does work in the Third World."
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