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as in majesty
impressiveness of beauty on a large scale
the splendor of the ancient monument awed us into silence
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as in brightness
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the splendor of the huge diamond can scarcely be described
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as in miracle
something extraordinary or surprising
some of the many splendors of the reign of Tutankhamen are on display in this new travelling exhibition
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Recent Examples of splendor
Say, will floor-to-ceiling bookshelves look superior or is best to leave a few feet between the ceiling and the top of your bookshelf for more visual splendor?
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Kate Jerde, Architectural Digest, 28 Dec. 2025
Even Mom couldn’t argue the splendor of Montana covered in snow.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
On Sunday night, the final Hanukkah candle was lit on menorahs around Orange County, illuminating the candelabrum in its full splendor of eight lights.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 22 Dec. 2025
These galleries trace his evolution from Sunday best to front-row splendor.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Dec. 2025
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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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Luckily, a miracle came to me in the form of a workhorse concealer.—
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Other sertanejo and agronejo artists content themselves with promoting agrobusiness interests through their lyrics, praising industrial farming and the miracle of pesticides.—
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His was an innings of belligerent brilliance.—
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Of course, the Longhorns derived some of their success from Manning’s individual brilliance.—
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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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During my early childhood, my brother and I lived in innocence, away from the great world, absorbed by sand, waves and marvels of the ocean.—
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Mercifully, the marvels of modern medicine and technology have greatly compensated for these losses.—
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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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“Splendor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splendor. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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