corona

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Recent Examples of corona Coronal mass ejections — fiery busts of plasma from the sun's corona — can cause space weather conditions that threaten our planet in a few different ways. Tom Brown, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2025 Banerjee attributed this phenomenon to electrical discharges in a corona surrounding individual water droplets, but Zare wanted to investigate this phenomenon a bit further. Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025 In 2018, Parker watched from Cape Canaveral as the Parker Solar Probe blasted off for the outer corona of the sun. Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025 On a smaller scale, interchange reconnection powers a constant and global population of jets that inject energy into the corona and through the coronal holes. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for corona
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  • In videos and photos on social media, Leake, now in his early fifties, had the aura of an elder-statesman goth punk.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The overwhelming majority of those games have not carried the aura of a special occasion in the way UEFA Champions League or Copa Libertadores fixtures can in Europe and South America.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Corona.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corona. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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