variants
or aureolae
as in glories
an artistic rendering of radiant light around the head or body of a sacred personage
the white marble sculpture of the saint in the throes of divine ecstasy is strikingly offset by a gilt aureole
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Since taking the reins as the CEO of its racing division in late 2016, Brown has overseen McLaren’s evolution from a team stuck in the shadow of past glories to one that now sits atop the F1 world once more.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025 -
The poet’s reminiscences form the core of several poems that rank among the glories of twentieth-century American literature.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Dark matter does interact gravitationally, and this has allowed astronomers to discover that entire galaxies like the Milky Way are embedded in vast haloes of dark matter that extend far beyond the reaches of those galaxies' visible matter.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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According to the standard model of cosmology, galaxies like the Milky Way are located within massive dark matter halos, where the highest concentration of this mysterious substance is found at the galactic center.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Aug. 2025
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