Beacon in a sentence as a noun

This is happening in the "beacon of democracy" of the world.

This forum should be a PR beacon for awesome customer support!

Since it doesn't represent a beacon of liberty any longer, it might as well serve a purpose.

Right now, using Tor or strong encryption is a bright beacon saying "this person has something to hide!" and the NSA et al hone in by default.

Hopefully, Inmarsat has it right, and the black boxes will be found before their beacon batteries run out.

So whilst Australian's can freely talk **** about the government, Australia is far from a beacon of free speech.

There are many applications of a good random beacon besides crypto.

Beacon in a sentence as a verb

To my fellow citizen, and the rest of the word, I'm sorry America is no longer the beacon of freedom it once was.

That's far from the beacon of freedom US used to be. Whenever I see the heavily armed and militarized police in US and how they react to protesters, it's like I'm watching news about Russia or something.

As someone who fears ageism and my role as a hacker in light of the aging process, I am taking his post to be a beacon of light and hope, not anything resembling a '******'.

****, he likes David Foster Wallace -- whose books aren't exactly high-school reading -- and posted this a few weeks ago: Thats why Wallaces work serves as a beacon, a yardstick, for my own. As incisive as his writing could be, DFW almost always eschewed cynicism in favor of humanism and emotional sincerity.

That is what the top-level comment is getting at: Blatant hypocrisy from a state whose denizens have proudly proclaimed it to be "the greatest country on Earth" or "the greatest nation in history", some beacon of freedom and humanism, throughout its existence: The farce that is American Exceptionalism.

Hence the walled garden approach with incessant prompts to signup to view content, the use of address book import to spread virally, the use of beacon to track and announce users activities, the use of like button js to track activity, the launch of Facebook apps and single sign-on to attempt to corral web developers within their ecosystem and make them dependent, the launch of a competitor to email/IM etc etc. This latest move with email is simply the latest in a long line of moves consistently attempting to steer users into spending all of their online time within the confines of Facebook, it is entirely consistent with their past behaviour and we should expect similar moves in future.

Proper Noun Examples for Beacon

Beaconreader. com/projects/the-spy-in-your-pocket Please chip in $5 if you can towards their goal.

Beacon definitions

noun

a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance

noun

a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes

noun

a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships

See also: lighthouse pharos

verb

shine like a beacon

verb

guide with a beacon