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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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as in outstanding
standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement
after his film became an unexpected blockbuster, the director was suddenly welcome in the most astral circles of Hollywood society
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Recent Examples of astral
By Paris Wilson December 2, 2025 The Best Place to Glimpse the Eclipse and Northern Lights Is at Sea
Cruise ships are sailing toward next summer's total solar eclipse—and other astral phenomena.
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Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
Those enhancements would give Nochebuena a colorful astral backdrop.
—James Powel, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
Throughout, midnight blues and grays, nebulous reds and oranges, galactic silvers and metallics are all hues that make up this astral collection, symbolizing endings and new beginnings.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Write them all down in your journal to keep tabs on what the astral plane tells you.
—Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 2 July 2025
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Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
Those enhancements would give Nochebuena a colorful astral backdrop.
—James Powel, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
Throughout, midnight blues and grays, nebulous reds and oranges, galactic silvers and metallics are all hues that make up this astral collection, symbolizing endings and new beginnings.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Write them all down in your journal to keep tabs on what the astral plane tells you.
—Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for astral
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Interference from Starlink and other satellites has already become frustratingly routine for astronomers, hampering science as celestial objects are obscured, and the problem is only going to get worse.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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Kallat’s artistic practice encompasses painting, collage, photography, and installation, and explores themes of time, space, measurement, and nature, frequently juxtaposing the historic with the present, and the celestial with the mundane.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
16 Mar. 2026
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Bradley was named the tournament’s most outstanding player and was joined on the all-tournament team by Burries, Houston’s Joseph Tugler, BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Iowa State’s Milan Momcilovic.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
15 Mar. 2026
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Students earned their place at the state competition through outstanding performances at the regional level, which was hosted over five weekends on the Metropolitan Education District (MetroED) campus.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2026
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If frozen molecules can survive within these dusty structures, they may later be released into the interstellar medium as the nebula disperses, contributing complex material to future generations of stars and planetary systems.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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Reflection nebulas are vast clouds of interstellar dust, that shine by scattering the blue light of nearby stars, according to NASA.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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Few cooperative apartment houses in New York are as distinguished—or as tightly controlled by an exacting board—as the stately limestone building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 66th Street.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
20 Mar. 2026
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The former president and his center deserve a better and more distinguished address than Stony Island Avenue.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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Computing’s prestigious Turing Award went this week to two men who created a way of keeping digital communication safe even in the age of quantum computers.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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Following the assassination of President Kennedy, Onassis moved to New York to 1040 Fifth Avenue, one of Manhattan’s most prestigious cooperatives overlooking Central Park.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Mar. 2026
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Retiring after the humbling 40-22 Super Bowl loss to the Eagles last year would have been no way to end such an illustrious career.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Mar. 2026
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Evans is coming off the absolute worst year of his long, illustrious professional life.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Over the next few decades, as Coach K won five national titles and turned Duke into, arguably, the sport’s pre-eminent program, tenting grew increasingly popular.—
Storey Wertheimer,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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Alcorn passed away at 71 in January 2025 as possibly the world’s pre-eminent pedal steel player, driven by a vision to bring as much out of it as possible and, in doing so, to gracefully apprehend and interpret whatever music caught her interest.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
4 Mar. 2026
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His savior was the experimental documentarian Harun Farocki, famous for provocative works that skewered bourgeois complacency.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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And what about that famous mustache and those iconic red overalls?—
Alexander Kaplan,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Astral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/astral. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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