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as in celestial
of or relating to the stars gave the astronomy students the assignment of charting astral movement for the next month

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Recent Examples of astral The cumulative all-encompassing effect is not entirely unlike Bill Irwin’s astral projecting through cable TV. Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025 Nashville Tennessean 0:00 0:58 For consecutive evenings, Sierra Ferrell transformed the Ryman Auditorium into a rollicking bordello and juke joint inhabiting a timeless location on your local astral plane. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 22 Mar. 2024 The disturbance didn’t come from some astral disaster at the solar system’s doorstep, however. Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025 For her part, af Klint identified more as a mystic than as an artist, at times claiming to channel the astral plane with her work. Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for astral
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  • Related article Largest celestial object of its kind detected in the distant universe The new images represent just over 10 hours of test observations, offering a brief preview of the observatory’s decade-long mission to explore the mysteries of the universe like never before.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
  • Yet these same conditions—distance from anthropogenic light sources, a mountainous altitude above the cloud line, a crisp desert atmosphere—provide the baselines for Rubin to access the faintest of faint celestial objects.
    Michael Jones McKean, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
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  • They’re spread across the United States and capture the remarkable variety that defines the country — from culture and food to history and outstanding natural beauty.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 28 June 2025
  • In 2012, Bates won her first Emmy Award, taking home outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for Two and a Half Men.
    Brendan Le, People.com, 28 June 2025
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  • The agency would terminate missions currently exploring Jupiter, on the way to study an asteroid, and approaching interstellar space.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
  • This realization reconfigures the entire book, recasting their ongoing dialogue and seemingly cordial relations as an interstellar jail—and the novel itself into an extended, especially cruel prison sentence.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
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  • From September 25-28, the Windy City hosts Chicago Gourmet one of the nation’s most distinguished food festivals.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Developers feed their chatbot models on a torrent of material, much of it scraped from the web — everything from distinguished literary works to random babbling — as well as collections holding millions of books, articles, scientific papers and the like, some of it copyrighted.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
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  • One starting point is seeking international students in the U.S. Students from around the world come to the U.S. to study AI and machine learning at prestigious schools.
    Sophie Alcorn, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • The film recently received the prestigious Sydney Film Prize at the 72nd Sydney Film Festival.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 June 2025
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  • The 3,000 career strikeout club is an exclusive club of 19 pitchers who have reached the illustrious mark.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • Cooper Flagg, his illustrious teammate at Montverde Academy, went first.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2025
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  • Pike will play Jessica Parks, an eminent Crown Court criminal judge, a maverick at the top of her career and married with a son.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 24 June 2025
  • Dalla Costa shared her ideas with other feminists, including Selma James, who lived in London and had been married to the eminent cultural historian and Pan-Africanist C. L. R. James.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025
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  • The American’s most famous painting Madame X (circa 1884) caused a scandal at the time for depicting socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau with a dress strap hanging down off her shoulder.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 23 June 2025
  • How quantum histories interfere One of the most famous demonstrations of the mysterious nature of quantum mechanics is called the double-slit experiment.
    Matt von Hippel, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025

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“Astral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/astral. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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