Synonyms for luminaries
lu·mi·nar·ies

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1. List of paraphrases for "luminaries":

   torches

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1. Le Corre:

   Nobody would have gambled that a man with such a thin political résumé would have made it in less than two years,( defeating) a former prime minister and other luminaries in the French election, his movement, and they keep saying it's a movement and not a political party, it allows him to introduce himself as a maverick.

2. Rick Bayless:

   We get a chance to welcome all of these people. These are the luminaries of the food world coming to Chicago to enjoy our hospitality and, boy, we are being very hospitable.

3. Bertrand Russell:

   The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

4. Cassandra Hatton:

   This manuscript dates from the time when Turing was engaged in the crucial task of breaking the Enigma Code, its mathematical content gives an extraordinary insight into the working mind of one of the greatest luminaries of the 20th Century.

5. Grange Lady Haig Rutan:

   As an author I found it fascinating interviewing luminaries of the jazz world for over 15 years, beginning with a phone call from Red Rodney on a Thanksgiving Day in 1989 and then a phone call from Stan Getz on Christmas Day; their comments set in motion the quest to write a book about my first husband, Al Haig, the chosen pianist of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (who gave me the moniker 'Lady Haig' one blustery cold night outside of Birdland on a January night) - and later Stan Getz.”