in the stars

phrase

: going to happen
I guess romance just isn't in the stars for me right now.

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While on a break from working on her garden at home, Anderson spoke to Deadline about the evolution of her career, proving herself in an industry that can often be unforgiving, and whether or not a return to Baywatch is in the stars. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 July 2026 Chen and colleagues ran hundreds of computer simulations of mass transfer between binary stars and discovered that the key to generating an interacting supernova is when this mass transfer occurs late in the stars' lives. Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 July 2026 As a whole, motherhood represents a shift in the stars for both Shea and Davis, who have long dedicated their lives to the entertainment world. Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 Visions such as Verne’s influenced most of the engineers and scientists that made human spaceflight possible, such as Robert Goddard and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who believed that humanity’s destiny is in the stars. Anastasia Klimchynskaya, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for in the stars

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“In the stars.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20stars. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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