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as in echoes
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterglows
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The people’s need for freedom has always been vocalized through protest, and the echoes of what’s happening there and what’s happening in Minneapolis are eerily similar.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026 -
There are echoes of those campaigns this term; Arsenal led the standings for the majority of those seasons and is stuttering.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Elsewhere in the hotel, the look is rustic and Mediterranean, combining traditional elements like wooden ceiling beams, elegant canopies draped over king-size beds, and carpets made of natural fibers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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The researchers used focused ion beams to mill the QR code onto the ceramic film, with individual pixels measuring just 49 nanometers each.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
20 Feb. 2026
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Finally, the western horizon needs to be perfectly clear at sunset to allow the sun’s rays to hit the cliff face.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
18 Feb. 2026
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Melbourne, Australia — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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This reveals how the ice giant’s unusual magnetic field shapes spectacular auroras high above the planet’s clouds.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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So far, the probe has delivered new insights into weather patterns, auroras, and the moon Deimos.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Lü Pin just happened to be in New York at the time and decided not to go, out of fear of repercussions upon returning.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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On this cloudy Tuesday, Ramirez wasn’t thinking about the possibility of repercussions; that was a matter for later.—
Jessica Ma,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Hence, physicists have inferred that galaxies are embedded with vast haloes of dark matter that extend far beyond their haloes of stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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The negative space design keeps them feeling modern and chic, letting the gemstone halos and metallic foil really shine.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
5 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, Lee published a list of questions for Sarandos on social media Friday morning, which primarily concerned the anticompetitive implications of a WBD-Netflix merger.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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But Roberts, joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, brushed that aside, writing that the foreign affairs implications don’t change the legal principle.—
Lindsay Whitehurst,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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Kitchen appliances can have a greasy residue, and microfiber cloths can trap oils and spread them over the surface of your stainless steel surfaces, attracting more grime and leaving streaks.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
17 Feb. 2026
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Rinse thoroughly with warm water and dry with a microfiber cloth to prevent streaks.—
Louise Parks,
Martha Stewart,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Afterglows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterglows. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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