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Recent Examples of afterglow
But as Gottlieb addressed the team after the game, her players burst into spontaneous celebration, flinging water at their coach and soaking in the afterglow of their biggest victory of the season.
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Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
The Ducks’ Pat Verbeek could continue basking in the afterglow of an off-the-board lottery pick, winger Beckett Sennecke, that panned out famously.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 18 Jan. 2026
In the afterglow of Last Rites becoming the biggest horror premiere of the year, HBO made moves on a TV spinoff series.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Dec. 2025
Yet the expansion of space that redshifted the afterglow also creates the illusion of slowing down processes.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
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Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
The Ducks’ Pat Verbeek could continue basking in the afterglow of an off-the-board lottery pick, winger Beckett Sennecke, that panned out famously.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 18 Jan. 2026
In the afterglow of Last Rites becoming the biggest horror premiere of the year, HBO made moves on a TV spinoff series.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Dec. 2025
Yet the expansion of space that redshifted the afterglow also creates the illusion of slowing down processes.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterglow
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A number of denouements follow in All That’s Left of You, including a jump forward into 2022, when Hanan and Salim, who now live in Canada, go back to Jaffa and find Salim’s old family home, a run-down oasis of the past in a city determined to forget its history.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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The denouement of the musical bears down, allowing both Barfee and Olive to bring the piece home, and where some of the show’s best music lives.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Particle accelerators like the LHC typically work by firing beams of particles at nearly the speed of light and smashing them together.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Mar. 2026
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It can be anchored to any door, rafter, or beam in seconds and safely supports up to 700 pounds.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The streamings wars brought about new players, but also consumer expectations of instant gratification.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Mar. 2026
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Some people look at it, at it as this means of sort of, narcissistic ego gratification.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
25 Mar. 2026
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When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake.—
William B. Davis,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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In season two, the trauma of her assault is still coursing through her and sending out aftershocks.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
6 Mar. 2026
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The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada shared this dramatic timelapse of the weekend auroras.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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The aurora-viewing season roughly falls between September and April.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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West presents her memoir as a story of her growing clarity and contentment in her life with Aham and Roya.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2026
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One of them was do awe experiences make people feel a sense of contentment and satisfaction with their lives?—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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The fallout from that ordeal, in addition to being diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus, led to Barber pulling out of a main event fight against fellow Coloradan Rose Namajunas at Ball Arena that July.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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Revenue hit and fallout The advertiser pullback hit X’s finances hard.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Mar. 2026
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For decades, Chevrolet’s halo car has been the Corvette, which showcases innovations like dual-clutch transmission and magnetic selective-ride control, a feature that reads the road and adjusts shock absorbers.—
Jon McNeill,
Big Think,
25 Mar. 2026
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Cyrus herself has worn both hair colors many, many times in the past, oscillating from a bleach-blonde platinum crop in her Bangerz days to a Debbie Harry-esque halo to warm brunette.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Afterglow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterglow. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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