corona

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Recent Examples of corona During totality, the moon will perfectly block the sun, causing a brief 360-degree twilight, dropping temperatures and the chance to see the sun's corona with the naked eye. Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Spacecraft studied solar chromosphere For the latest mission from White Sands, a Black Brant IX sounding rocket carried new technology to study the sun's mysterious chromosphere, located between the sun's visible surface, known as the photosphere, and its outer layer, the corona. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 21 July 2025 Scientists took images of the sun’s corona during the summers of 2023 and 2024. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025 This activity, characterized by a feature called a corona, may be deforming the planet’s surface in a way similar to events in Earth’s past. Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for corona
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aura
Noun
  • The pressure on high-end fashion brands to maintain their aura of quality, exclusivity and ethics is mounting amid an already challenging luxury landscape, which is being impacted by a global spending downturn.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But that aura of possibility begins to fade when the less pleasant edges of their respective realties come to light.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025

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“Corona.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corona. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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