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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.

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Examples

  • The interior features improved seat cushioning with power lumbar, and a sport steering wheel with backlighted cruise controls, electronic vehicle information, and available voice controls.

    2011 Chicago Auto Show: Dodge unveils new R/T performance cars, minivans, and SUVs 2011

  • Piercing the gloom of the station's cavernous main hall like stained-glass windows that promised a better life here on earth, these backlighted transparencies were scaled to compete with outdoor billboards in Times Square.

    Kodak's Grand Central Moments Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • The keyboard, with its five well-spaced rows of backlighted keys, is one of the best I've seen on a phone.

    First Look: HTC Arrive, Sprint's first Windows Phone 2011

  • The show often opened with Mr. LaLanne backlighted, doing jumping jacks, before the lights came up and he began his unflagging efforts to get watchers up and moving with him.

    Jack LaLanne dies; fitness guru helped shepherd in an era of health-consciousness Patricia Howard 2011

  • Both 3G phones have vertical, backlighted, slide-out keyboards and look very much like current Pre models, and both phones have the ability to act as mobile hotspots for up to 5 devices with optional data plans.

    HP's new webOS 2 smart phones: Pre3 and Veer 2011

  • I know it's backlighted, but it's comfortable to hold, has a good screen size, is very affordable (especially compared to the Kindle & Sony eReader) and has a half-decent eBook selection.

    Is the Future of Reading Ebooks and Cell Phones? 2008

  • Taho's backlighted keypad as well as other buttons protrude distinctively and are well spaced, which makes dialing numbers and accessing key functions quite easy.

    First Look: The tough Taho 2010

  • The sun is the artist backlighted all the grasses and that one in particular.

    Leaves Of Grass(es)* « Fairegarden 2009

  • Even the top panel of the commercial refrigerator holding drinks, which usually has some pithy slogan like ICE COLD on tacky, backlighted Plexiglas, is covered with wallpaper.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Even the top panel of the commercial refrigerator holding drinks, which usually has some pithy slogan like ICE COLD on tacky, backlighted Plexiglas, is covered with wallpaper.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

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