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as in brilliancy
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the brilliance of the flash from the camera was so intense that I was blinded for a moment afterwards
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as in majesty
impressiveness of beauty on a large scale
the brilliance of the palace is really quite staggering
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Recent Examples of brilliance
Those struggles were on them early on, and a function of Vasilevskiy’s brilliance late.
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Adam H. Beasley, Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
French existence, universal brilliance.
—Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
Apple recently learned that engineering brilliance does not guarantee sales.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
But the shoddy quality of the past two decades has no impact on the brilliance of the early years.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2025
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So, astronomers have come up with a compromise regarding the geometry of the sun's illumination angle on Venus' disk versus its distance from Earth to determine the time of Venus' greatest brilliancy.—
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Family circles will have wrapped themselves in the holy pleasures of the great occasion, and everywhere the grand old holiday will have been introduced with all the majesty and brilliancy which clings around the hallowed name of Christmas.—
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Want to capture the majesty of the night sky for yourself?—
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By turns greeting visitors and barring their entry to the museum, the performers animated the building while desacralizing the quasi-religious majesty and vaulted proportions of Mies’s design.—
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Motorola built the camera system around Sony’s LYTIA sensor to improve brightness and color accuracy.—
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Those on a budget can find simple lanterns with multiple brightness levels at low price points.—
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As Oscar season ramps up, the 83rd Golden Globe Awards will fete a variety of movies and TV shows, plus give needed momentum to contenders aiming for glory at March 15's Academy Awards ceremony.—
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But Erivo is in it for the glory, not the fame, and will be missing out on the big show.—
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To assess the roots, carefully remove the plant from its pot and examine them for firmness, lightness, and suppleness.—
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But with Rawayana, depth is always masked by lightness.—
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The clean double-breasted buttons instantly add elegance to your airport outfit, especially when paired with a matching Amazon Essentials Turtleneck and sleek black Libin Wide-leg Dress Pants to keep you warm and comfortable from takeoff to arrival.—
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But the elegance in this quirky look did feel complicated, challenging even, to take in at first glance.—
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But even setting aside the continued sartorial magnificence of Alan Cumming and his stylish sidekick, The Traitors’s entertainment value as a social experiment keeps on rising.—
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The magnificence of mesquite is on full display.—
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Its medical professionals aren’t just competent but morally perfect, their personal failings serving mainly to make their essential nobility more tangible.—
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Intelligence is a little like the concept of nobility, said Alison Gopnik, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has pioneered techniques for studying the cognitive abilities of babies and children.—
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“Brilliance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brilliance. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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