afterglows

Definition of afterglowsnext
plural of afterglow

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Noun
  • Let the anniversaries roll From America250 to Miles Davis, not to mention the echoes of Jazz Day and full summer at Ravinia, our critic’s picks in jazz and classical music for the coming season.
    Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • Using money from depositors who had the right to withdraw their funds on demand to finance long-term, illiquid investments with an uncertain and distant payoff was a highly risky strategy—and one with echoes of what is currently creating turmoil among private credit funds today.
    Fortune, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • According to the team, each isotope produces a distinct resonance pattern when exposed to neutron beams across different energy levels.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • Niall Horan beams on stage while performing at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Sunderland, England, on May 23.
    People Staff, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • The researchers used ultrabright X-rays at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to understand how the structural changes improved ion transport.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
  • The raycaster works by sending out rays from the player’s position to detect the distance to the first wall the player can see in that line.
    Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Eternia has auroras He-Man's home world has auroras, or colorful light displays in the night sky that occur when charged solar particles interact and react with a planet's atmosphere.
    Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 5 June 2026
  • Also, in the lead-up to the summer solstice, nights are short, which makes auroras more difficult to spot.
    Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 May 2026
  • After being threatened with legal repercussions, the outlet deleted the story in its entirety.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • Historically, shoppers relied on design strategies — halos, clusters and chunkier settings — to create the illusion of size.
    Lauren Fisher, Footwear News, 20 May 2026
  • Guests brought to life looks that referenced papal garments and displayed biblical artifacts like crosses, angel wings and halos.
    Luis Giraldo, CBS News, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • The failure of New Glenn also has major implications for NASA and its surging efforts to return humans to the Moon before the end of this decade and to establish a lunar base on the surface.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
  • Pope Leo's statement is one of many debates being had in religious circles about the implications of AI and how parishioners should or should not engage with the rapidly growing technology.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 29 May 2026
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“Afterglows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterglows. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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