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a galactic serving of soda that would have been enough for three moviegoers
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Recent Examples of galactic
The Milky Way, our own galactic home, is one such spiral, and studying other examples like NGC 3370 provides astronomers with clues about how galaxies form and evolve.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Any other creation theory – hollow Earth, flat Earth, mud collection, hanging cord, corpse reuse, dreamtime, biosphere as gemstone in the ring of a galactic giant, please insert alternative here.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
In a world where people on social media will believe almost anything, this supremely accomplished business titan is captured just in time for the imminent lunar eclipse that will carry them all back to her galactic throne room.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
An anthology of first memories, a meditation on decomposition, spinning constellations—every stanza grapples with change on a private or galactic scale.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Any other creation theory – hollow Earth, flat Earth, mud collection, hanging cord, corpse reuse, dreamtime, biosphere as gemstone in the ring of a galactic giant, please insert alternative here.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
In a world where people on social media will believe almost anything, this supremely accomplished business titan is captured just in time for the imminent lunar eclipse that will carry them all back to her galactic throne room.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
An anthology of first memories, a meditation on decomposition, spinning constellations—every stanza grapples with change on a private or galactic scale.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for galactic
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In 2017, Nepal joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s vast infrastructure investment program.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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Robotic systems like Sentante could let experts treat patients remotely instead of transporting them across vast regions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Nov. 2025
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That move, however, allowed the giant exhibitor to fully redeem all of its 2026 debt maturities.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Generative, predictive, and other forms of AI collectively are projected to generate as much as $340 billion annually in value creation for the global banking sector, consulting giant McKinsey has estimated.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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At the center of all the glitzy havoc—her face often looming on a huge flat screen that rolls around the stage, following actors like a hulking LED stalker—is of course Chenoweth.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Todd also had a huge sack in the fourth quarter.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
9 Nov. 2025
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But their collective decline from era-changing talents, who, in the case of Zverev and Medvedev, forced style changes across the tour with their combination of gigantic serves and elite movement and defense, illustrates how far Sinner and Alcaraz have pulled away.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Getting that pilot picked up is another gigantic win that is getting rarer and rarer.—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN analysis of satellite images, maps and government notices reveals.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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For Native people, the war marked a dangerous fork in the road, stirring famine, spurring a massive refugee crisis, and permanently shifting the balance of power in the heart of the continent.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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As the anti-India movement in the Maldives gained momentum, China exploited the United States’ absence, rapidly expanding its regional footprint by easing the tremendous debt the island country owed China.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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The lid lifters, who conduct their inspections just before crews are scheduled to pick up trash and recycling, have created some confusion because their inspections began with the city’s trash system in tremendous flux.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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Danielewski is a writer of enormous power and vision.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Some of this, of course, is related to fires in California and hurricanes in the southeast that destroyed an enormous amount of utility infrastructure.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The sibling filmmaking duo spent most of the 2010s making a colossal two-part movie adaptation of King’s 1,138-page horror opus about a shapeshifting clown who terrorizes the small town of Derry, Maine.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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Filler shots of chauffeurs, champagne and colossal walk-in closets with pristine designer clobber glistening and gleaming from glass shelves centred around trays and trays of priceless jewels assault the viewer’s senses between almost every scene.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Galactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galactic. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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