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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
In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs.
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Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Over the decades, the observatories on Kitt Peak have helped map dark matter, chart distant galaxies and train generations of astronomers.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
That also might suggest that the inhabitants of those galaxies should find those same laws of physics.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
The universe is overwhelmingly made of matter, which is responsible for visible structures ranging from atoms to galaxies, and quarks to quasars.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
But that’s not the case for all galaxies.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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
Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Over the decades, the observatories on Kitt Peak have helped map dark matter, chart distant galaxies and train generations of astronomers.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
That also might suggest that the inhabitants of those galaxies should find those same laws of physics.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
The universe is overwhelmingly made of matter, which is responsible for visible structures ranging from atoms to galaxies, and quarks to quasars.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
But that’s not the case for all galaxies.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for galaxies
Noun
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The annual fundraising event, presented by Gucci, benefits the historic museum, and brought together figures from across the fashion, art, film, and music worlds.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
2 Nov. 2025
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The moon is glimmering, the veil between worlds is thin and there’s an air of mischief lingering in the shadows.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Just this year another team of scientists used Gaia data to look at 17,000 young stars—which tend to form right in the middle of the galaxy’s disk—and 3,400 Cepheid variables in a region of the Milky Way tens of thousands of light-years across.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
6 Nov. 2025
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Water bodies light-years away hold volumes of water trillions of times greater than Earth’s oceans.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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