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glare

[glair] / glΙ›Ι™r /
NOUN
very bright light, shine
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The Duo also has a nanotexture finish, which reduces glare and helps hide the crease, a detail which analysts expect will matter to consumers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Shade: Sitting on the saddle-like seat in open water, riders have no refuge from the sun or ocean’s upward glare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

He’s the most talentless man ever caught in the bright glare of the light he demanded from the world.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that sun glare had blinded both pilots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The red eye seemed to glare at him even from the embers.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Though “stupid song” has its somber moments, it’s easier to scream in a crowd without catching concerned glares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Behind it all is a Pittsburgh native, you-know-who, head coach Curt Cignetti, the sideline stern face who still glares at his charges like it’s spring practice and someone just dropped two punts a row.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

A massive "Home Furnishings" banner glares over the line of grubby once-white caravans, many with padlocked doors and windows taped shut.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

His inscrutable glares and theatrical pauses are the intangibles that make this show unique.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2023

He glares at me with open disgust now.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

I petted my bird by tapping my screen while my real life cat glared at me from a corner.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

Back on Tasman Drive, tourists excitedly posed for pictures next to a speed bump sign as a grumbling resident glared at them.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

After a dreadful service game handed an immediate second-set break to Svitolina, Sabalenka glared at her team, stomped to her seat and then broke back at the first opportunity.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

As the SDF convoy rolled by, men and boys glared from storefronts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

She glared at Frederick and Bruno, holding her shovel over her shoulder like a weapon.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

In this series, he has two hits and two strikeouts in eight at-bats, and his inability to refrain from swinging at pitches outside the strike zone has become a glaring weakness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Florida’s $44 million football coach had barely set foot inside his team’s practice facility when he noticed a glaring issue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sutton said his old club have been "flat-track bullies" by "beating the teams you expect them to beat", but the collapse in Austria, plus Sunday's bruising loss, has highlighted glaring deficiencies.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Even before the summer rush, nerves were on edge; a January 4 breakdown in the communication system linking air traffic controllers and aircraft had laid bare a glaring weakness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

Kepler, at least, wasn’t afraid of a glaring problem: as Δx goes to zero, the sum becomes equivalent to adding an infinite number of zeros together—a result that makes no sense.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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