Thesaurus results for AURAS

auras

noun

plural of aura

as in atmospheres

a special quality or impression associated with something the monastery perched high on a mountaintop had an aura of unreality and mystery about it

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as in energies

a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings alternative medical treatments that rely on the practitioner's ability to detect a patient's aura

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Recent Examples of auras The film follows a quiet inmate arriving at a violent Indonesian prison with a supernatural entity that kills those with the darkest auras. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026 This airbrush design on a long square nail comprises a mix of French-tip auras, clear blobs, and 3D florals for a fun and funky design. —

Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026 Labubus allowed fashion girlies to get nostalgic with their Birkins, the trad look swept social media’s most aesthetic corners, and the TikTok generation (following its near US ban) began farming its auras. —

Ella Graveney, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025 Venus in Capricorn opposes Jupiter retrograde in Cancer, energizing our auras. —

Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 22 Dec. 2025 The story, following a retired widower whose insomnia gives him the ability to see auras, is set in Derry, and the shadow of IT hangs over it. —

Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025 These ghosts, which take the form of their dead friends, are mostly just goofy, with the shoddy special effects and glowy auras giving the whole thing a distinctly Haunted Mansion vibe; critically, the threat never feels real, which undermines any tension. —

Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025 People read auras and palms, too. —

Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2025

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Cash flow from Mauve's operations will help Blue Skies Space complete the development of its next mission, called Twinkle, a 220-pound (100-kilogram) satellite designed to directly observe nearby exoplanets and measure the compositions of their atmospheres.

— Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
In these walls of white noise, Martin channels Paysage d’Hiver, a Swiss black-metal artist who has made a whole career—and a lot of lore—out of approximating winter storms through blindingly white guitar fuzz and overwhelming dark-ambient atmospheres.

— Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026