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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 deaths of notable people close to eclipses — including French Emperor Louis the Pious on May 5, 840 and the Prophet Mohammad's son Ibrahim on Jan. 27, 632 — further tied negative beliefs to the astral event. James Powel, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024 The designer shared her inspirational mood boards mixing mythological elements, fabrics, color palette and astral references. Jennifer Weil, WWD, 3 Feb. 2025 Much is slid under the saucer of Alice Coltrane’s Monument Eternal (Akashic Books, $19.95), which also pursues formlessness and maternal hardship, albeit from the cryptic climes of the astral plane. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 Case in point: Get lost in an astral disco ball, which thrums with a harmonious heartbeat, and a whimsical wormhole. Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for astral
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  • Then comes the major celestial plot twist: Jupiter, the planet of luck and abundance, enters Cancer on June 9th at 5:02 p.m. EST.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 May 2025
  • This celestial bubble, discovered by astrophysicist Miroslav Filipović of Western Sydney University, is likely a supernova remnant (SNR), an expanding shell of gas and dust formed by shockwaves from a massive stellar explosion.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 29 May 2025
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  • That’s the number of borrowers with outstanding federal student loan debt as of the second quarter of 2025, according to the Department of Education.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • At the March 3 hearing, attorneys representing Moreno and Escobar agreed Escobar’s 401k, through Major League Baseball, would be used to pay his outstanding debt.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2025
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  • Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles in interstellar space.
    Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
  • Using radio observations of ammonia, a molecule abundant in interstellar space and familiar on Earth as a common cleaning agent, astronomers mapped the rotating disk of gas and dust swirling around HW2.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 16 May 2025
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  • Lesser known, but no less distinguished, is Cesare Attolini.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
  • Father Roman, a distinguished figure with curly black hair and floor-sweeping black cassock, let us in.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
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  • The third-largest city in Italy with a population of around 1 million, Naples has long been known as a luxury menswear Mecca, home to some of the world’s most prestigious tailoring brands including Kiton, Isaia and Mariano Rubinacci.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
  • Over the past two weeks, celebrities have been flocking to France en masse to attend the most prestigious film festival in history: Cannes.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 23 May 2025
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  • Billy has had an illustrious career over the years.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 25 May 2025
  • Owners Carolyn Nugent and Alen Ramos moved to Colorado in 2020 after illustrious careers as professional pastry chefs, and began the bakery out of their kitchen.
    Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 20 May 2025
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  • 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
  • The award ceremony was presided over by Silvia Grilli, editor-in-chief of the eminent Italian fashion magazine, Grazia.
    Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
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  • For the last 26 years, the world’s most famous arena has been hollow in June.
    James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • The show is meant to resemble the actual speaking engagements Twain did after he had become established as one of the world’s most famous and popular authors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 30 May 2025

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“Astral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/astral. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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