light-year

as in world
a huge physical or conceptual distance my sister and I are close in age, but personality-wise, there are light-years between us

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Recent Examples of light-year About the size of Saturn, the new world is circling a red dwarf star about 111 light-years away. Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 Also known as Andromeda, the Milky Way’s most immediate neighbor is about 2.5 million light-years away, and provides an excellent option for studying how spiral galaxies form and evolve over time. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 June 2025 Once detected, neutrinos can reveal impressive information about the nature of cosmic events that took place light-years away, as Stephanie Wissel, an astrophysicist at the Pennsylvania State University, says in a statement. Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025 The star-forming regions that resemble clouds composed of dust and gas are located thousands of light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for light-year
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Noun
  • RWAs serve as the connective tissue between the real economy and the digital world, unlocking liquidity for traditionally illiquid assets while enabling programmable finance.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • And, there’s a whole world of us out here ready to support you.
    Amy Polacko, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
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  • The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025
  • According to the study, the first explanation is supermassive black holes found at the heart of galaxies.
    Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025

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“Light-year.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/light-year. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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