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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
brighten .
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Examples
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Her expression brightens and she stands up straighter.
Maximum Security Rose Connors 2004
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Her expression brightens and she stands up straighter.
Maximum Security Rose Connors 2004
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Her expression brightens and she stands up straighter.
Maximum Security Rose Connors 2004
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Joel van Houdt for The Wall Street Journal A fountain brightens a roundabout near a commercial building in a partially occupied section of the project.
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The first place he brightens is the stream beyond the seas, with news of the eastern waters.
The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919
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text is unlimited regardless of your service even when i only had 200 i spent them on you, cuz you're worth it. verse 2: it brightens my day, when your name brightens my screen saying "1 new message" from your name, i even added a "less than 3"
WN.com - Articles related to Catholic Charity and Sprint Tangle Over Texting 2010
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text is unlimited regardless of your service even when i only had 200 i spent them on you, cuz you're worth it. verse 2: it brightens my day, when your name brightens my screen saying "1 new message" from your name, i even added a
WN.com - Articles related to Catholic Charity and Sprint Tangle Over Texting 2010
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text is unlimited regardless of your service even when i only had 200 i spent them on you, cuz you're worth it. verse 2: it brightens my day, when your name brightens my screen saying "1 new message" from your name, i even added a "less than 3"
WN.com - Articles related to Catholic Charity and Sprint Tangle Over Texting 2010
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text is unlimited regardless of your service even when i only had 200 i spent them on you, cuz you're worth it. verse 2: it brightens my day, when your name brightens my screen saying "1 new message" from your name, i even added a
WN.com - Articles related to Catholic Charity and Sprint Tangle Over Texting 2010
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Then this person, caught in a moment of doubt, looks up and sees the President with the word "VICTORY" behind him and doesn't so much as think, but more "brightens" -- and then says to herself or himself, but probably himself, "Ah screw it, VICTORY!"
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