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For now, though, there is something to be said for letting Bella’s weird and wondrous story seep into the public imagination unilluminated — and also perhaps undiluted — by an actor’s commentary.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

When it’s closest to the sun in the sky, we see the back side of it, the unilluminated half, so it’s in the “new” phase.

From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2023

Lee Newman’s pictures of bones are rough and meaty, while Mark Karnes’s fluorescent lightbulb is sketchy and gray, ironically unilluminated.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019

But Felt, who died aged 95 in 2008, was a shadowy presence in that movie and remains similarly unilluminated in the public consciousness.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2017

We can imagine our ancestors gazing idly up on some night a hundred thousand years ago and noting a strange cloud arising from the unilluminated part of the Moon, suddenly struck by the Sun’s rays.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan