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Most of the active coronae were encircled by trenches, a hint that old crust dives into Venus’s mantle around these rocky rings, where it is driven downward as buoyant rock rises from below in the middle of each corona’s ring structure.
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Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
Prominences typically take about a day to form, and those that remain stable can endure in the corona for several months, arching hundreds of thousands of miles into space.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
The biggest shock to anyone standing within that path and having clear weather — which certainly wasn’t everyone on April 8, 2024 — was the sight of the sun's corona, its wispy white outer atmosphere.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The white halo was the sun's corona, and the dark circle was the moon's silhouette.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
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Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
Prominences typically take about a day to form, and those that remain stable can endure in the corona for several months, arching hundreds of thousands of miles into space.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
The biggest shock to anyone standing within that path and having clear weather — which certainly wasn’t everyone on April 8, 2024 — was the sight of the sun's corona, its wispy white outer atmosphere.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The white halo was the sun's corona, and the dark circle was the moon's silhouette.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corona
aura
Noun
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While jumping from one show to the next, Walters nurtured her relationship with fans and would have been appalled by the current aura of distrust.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
26 June 2025
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Verne purists won’t be pleased, because the tragic aura that surrounded Nemo in the novels doesn’t exactly translate here, and the adaptation’s company story line is so overwhelming while ultimately feeling too rapidly resolved.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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“Corona.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corona. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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