has enlightened
- present perfect of enlighten (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The trend toward greater liberty and human rights that has enlightened the past half-century will peak and begin to recede.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021
Four episodes in, “Bad Batch” has enlightened me more about fraudsters than science; future episodes may go further to sort out stem-cell fact from fiction.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2019
She has enlightened so many people, which I am sure has benefitted so many families.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
Academic input has enlightened discussions of climate change, pollinator declines, biomedical ethics and many other issues of crucial importance to the future of the United Kingdom and the wider world.
From Nature ● Mar. 1, 2016
This is incontrovertibly evident, both from past and present experience; and we may defy her most eloquent advocates to produce a single instance in which she has enlightened or reformed mankind.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.
