as in shimmering
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as in gleaming
to shoot forth bursts of light
the queen's crown glittered under the glare of the TV lights
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Recent Examples of glittering
Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 May 2025
Nearly the entire musical, which is now being revived at Lincoln Center, therefore unfolds with our hero stuck fast inside one of the earth’s narrow pockets, his dwindling awareness reaching out toward the glittering, subterranean volumes all around him.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The Victoria and Albert Museum is paying tribute to Cartier with a glittering new show.
—Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
His gloriously excessive style brings his fantasy of midcentury Los Angeles to brilliant, glittering, hyper-violent life, and his personal obsession with the Black Dahlia case shines through on every page.
—Sara Gran, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
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Photo: Google Maps Another theory: The glittering Emmys hardly distract from $6.495 million’s worth of truly great bones.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 May 2025
Nearly the entire musical, which is now being revived at Lincoln Center, therefore unfolds with our hero stuck fast inside one of the earth’s narrow pockets, his dwindling awareness reaching out toward the glittering, subterranean volumes all around him.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The Victoria and Albert Museum is paying tribute to Cartier with a glittering new show.
—Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
His gloriously excessive style brings his fantasy of midcentury Los Angeles to brilliant, glittering, hyper-violent life, and his personal obsession with the Black Dahlia case shines through on every page.
—Sara Gran, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glittering
Adjective
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In 2000, the beauty giant debuted its selection of perfectly shimmery lip products, which to this day deliver a blinding glow, a (literally) yummy formula and hydration that lasts up to four hours.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Image Image In a blinding flash, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay killed at least 70,000 people.—
William J. Broad,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Taipei, home to 2.6 million people, is one of the most scintillating metropoles in Asia.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Against elites, his Dangerous Fenwick is just over 50 percent, but his goal share (11-1) is a scintillating 91 percent.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Glaser, from a very glancing stylistic consideration, looks like a multicam by comparison.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Aug. 2024
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Even so, Joonam is too scattershot and distanced from culture and politics to resonate with the news — potentially the film’s greatest draw — in more than a glancing way.—
Caryn James,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2023
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Last year’s champs the Ghouls are a glaring and righteous exception.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
1 June 2025
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Their most glaring needs — a No. 1 receiver and left tackle — are being addressed by Diggs and Campbell.—
Jacob Robinson,
New York Times,
27 May 2025
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“Glittering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glittering. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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