as in brilliance
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the dazzle of the stars on a cold but clear winter's night
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Recent Examples of dazzle
Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Lastly, liquid eyeliners in silver and gold dazzle with a single gaze across the room.
—Karina Hoshikawa, Refinery29, 22 Sep. 2025
Zach Harper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
After dazzling audiences in Hamnet (and winning the Golden Globe for her powerful performance), Buckley next stars opposite Christian Bale in the violent, dark romance that's (very) lightly inspired by James Whale's 1935 horror The Bride of Frankenstein.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Feb. 2026
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Noun
While this summer lacked the dazzle and massive celebrations of the June 2024 grand reopening of Ford's Michigan Central Station, there was still lots of progress on display and even some celebrity appearances from the business world.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Lastly, liquid eyeliners in silver and gold dazzle with a single gaze across the room.
—Karina Hoshikawa, Refinery29, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
Few players dazzled me more with their highlights than Pack did.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
After dazzling audiences in Hamnet (and winning the Golden Globe for her powerful performance), Buckley next stars opposite Christian Bale in the violent, dark romance that's (very) lightly inspired by James Whale's 1935 horror The Bride of Frankenstein.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dazzle
Noun
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Basketball brilliance turned this frigid afternoon into a hot Fudd Sunday.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
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Melissa Ruggieri The emerging brilliance of Olivia Dean was not only recognized by Grammy voters, who awarded her best new artist, but by legendary music mogul Clive Davis.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
2 Feb. 2026
Verb
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One brain scan showed a metal pellet, which had partially blinded a nurse after she was shot in the head while exiting the hospital.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2026
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Ikram, now 26, survived the attack but was blinded in her right eye and permanently disfigured.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Kickstarter campaign is also offering a slightly less capable model that's ticks all of the above boxes except for brightness, which comes in at 2,600 ISO lumens for the Pro variant.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Feb. 2026
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Giving the camera longer exposure increases brightness but may reduce definition if the aurora is active.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The four-time overall World Cup champion stunned everyone by being a contender almost immediately.—
ANDREW DAMPF,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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The Monégasque team, led by Valentin Vacherot, stunned Bublik and Alexander Shevchenko in a 3-1 win, with Hugo Nys and Romain Arneodo triumphing over Bublik and Beibit Zhukayev in a nail-biting doubles rubber.—
James Hansen,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Rather than allowing its typical lightness, Benning layers their brushstrokes purposefully so as to establish new kinds of relationships, both pictorial and material.—
Alex Bacon,
Artforum,
10 Feb. 2026
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Instead, there's a certain lightness to February's feels.—
Calin Van Paris,
InStyle,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Dazzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dazzle. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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