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a huge physical or conceptual distance
they're a galaxy apart when it comes to politics
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Recent Examples of galaxies
To get to the bottom of things, though, the team behind the new research examined the host galaxies and environments of LFBOTs to try to pin down what the progenitors of these explosive events could really be.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 May 2026
Yet the outcome of the big bang was somehow a tiny sliver more matter than antimatter—all the galaxies, dust and living things in the universe belong to this minuscule excess.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
And there are billions of galaxies.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
Logistically, a national NIL cap sounds beyond impossible, like trying to lasso galaxies with a noodle.
—Jason Kirk, New York Times, 5 May 2026
However, the image ended up being so deep—and revealed so many galaxies—that some of the individual objects began to merge and become indistinguishable from each other.
—Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
And there were no major extragalactic objects, like galaxies or galaxy clusters, located anywhere within this field-of-view.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 May 2026
Yet the outcome of the big bang was somehow a tiny sliver more matter than antimatter—all the galaxies, dust and living things in the universe belong to this minuscule excess.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
And there are billions of galaxies.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
Logistically, a national NIL cap sounds beyond impossible, like trying to lasso galaxies with a noodle.
—Jason Kirk, New York Times, 5 May 2026
However, the image ended up being so deep—and revealed so many galaxies—that some of the individual objects began to merge and become indistinguishable from each other.
—Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
And there were no major extragalactic objects, like galaxies or galaxy clusters, located anywhere within this field-of-view.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for galaxies
Noun
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Although the population size seems to be stable, threats from climate change — rising ocean levels surrounding small islands — and from the ongoing loss of their habitat to human development will take a toll on their already fragile island worlds over the coming decades.—
Craig Stanford,
Big Think,
7 May 2026
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The tinted eye cream makes the clever case for best of both worlds.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
7 May 2026
Noun
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The galaxy's red and orange spiral arms bending outward can measure tens or even hundreds of light-years across.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
13 May 2026
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The magnifying glass The LAP1-B is 13 billion light-years away from Earth.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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