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  • verb Present participle of overlight.

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Examples

  • The intent was to establish outdoor lighting standards that reduce the impact of glare, light trespass and overlighting and to promote safety and energy conservation. ...

    More U.S. cities dimming the lights 2010

  • The intent was to establish outdoor lighting standards that reduce the impact of glare, light trespass and overlighting and to promote safety and energy conservation. ...

    More U.S. cities dimming the lights 2010

  • Fourth, until either the direct use of solar energy becomes a general convenience or controlled fusion is achieved, all waste of energy – by overheating, overcooling, overspeeding, overlighting, et cetera – should be carefully avoided, and if necessary, strictly regulated.

    Energy and economic myths (historical) Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 2007

  • It takes overlighting and bad make-up men to reveal, unequivocally, the stitches of age.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • It takes overlighting and bad make-up men to reveal, unequivocally, the stitches of age.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • It takes overlighting and bad make-up men to reveal, unequivocally, the stitches of age.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • The danger to good decoration is not only in overlighting, but in overdecorating, and commercialism naturally encourages this tendency.

    Color Value 1896

  • If the vicious overlighting is intended to offset the dismal atmosphere, it hints only at a Lubyanka interrogation cell.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Unmotivated color correction -- for no other reason than to give your movie the sheen of a commercial -- is a pest, just as much as overlighting an entire movie (the way Spielberg's collaboration with DP Janusz Kaminski means nearly all of his movies have ridiculous amounts of flare now).

    IFC.com - Indie Eye 2010

  • The intent was to establish outdoor lighting standards that reduce the impact of glare, light trespass and overlighting and to promote safety and energy conservation.

    USATODAY.com News 2010

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