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Recent Examples of shine
Verb
The sun should continue to shine Saturday with even warmer conditions and a high near 85. Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2025 The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and — wait, is that a rain cloud? Alice Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
To maximize shine, finish with a layer of Dior Top Coat for a flawless, glossy finish. Iman Balagam, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2025 Original price: $44 MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation gives your skin a smooth and even 12-hour ultra-matte finish while controlling shine without causing acne. Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shine
Verb
  • Over 12,000 glowing Amazon ratings back up the hype.
    Becca Blond, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Trump’s physical on Friday was conducted at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and his team promised glowing results.
    Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • When the Doctor is planning to break into memory banks to search for answers about why robots and people suddenly stopped peacefully coexisting, Belinda decides to use a polishing robot to lead the robots to her.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Offer to polish the slides, do research, or bring everything together.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Highland wasn’t even a gleam in anybody’s eye when Johnson ruled the city.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But also required is investment in new technologies that today may be only a gleam in some researcher’s eye.
    DANIEL YERGIN, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For the most recent discovery, a team of researchers used a different instrument outfitted to Webb to study the light from K2-18b's parent star as the planet passed in front of it from Earth's vantage.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But Kerr has won four championships and has repeatedly proven himself under the brightest lights.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Yes, there are three previous Palme d’Or winners in the lineup, but the likes of Mascha Schilinski, Hafsia Herzi and Chie Hayakawa, let alone Julie Ducournau and Carla Simon, represent a potential new wave of filmmakers.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Specializing in designing tours for high-profile celebrities, and entertainment events, the agency has created stages for the likes of the Grammy Awards, the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the 2024 EE BAFTA Awards, and the VMAs.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Special content, tips, and tricks: Free digital access to the vast recipe archives of Bon Appétit and Epicurious, plus an in-depth video filmed in the test kitchen of one recipe from each box.
    The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Other styling tricks included whimsical touches on simplified outfits such as oversized scarves, bag charms, layered belts, fur accessories and extravagant strands of pearls.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Players, coaches and their family members, along with athletic director Scott Stricklin and fellow UF administrators, beamed with pride, posed for selfies and shot videos as keepsakes of a night already etched forever in the memory of Gator faithful everywhere.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Despite her longstanding condition of diabetes with many complications, the patient was mostly optimistic and usually had a beaming face.
    Hansa Bhargava, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Gently rub away any remaining margarine with a paper towel.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Sometimes even small things can rub a customer wrong.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Shine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shine. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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