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as in aura
a special quality or impression associated with something
the halo of unimpeachable honesty in which the politician had long basked
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Recent Examples of halo
James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
Nine, the new album from Blink-182, a band forever associated with adolescence even though the members’ mean age is now 44, arrives haloed in that great teenage emotion: embarrassment.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2019
Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
Comic Leanne Morgan glows in peach for an interview, accessorized with an invisible halo of buzzing nerves clouding her thoughts.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 31 July 2025
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Noun
There is a none-too-subtle mystical vibe, from the ring lights that halo the massive trees on Amaya’s Bay Area campus to Forest’s cult-leader magnetism and the cold-burn fervor of his head acolyte, Katie (a quietly terrifying Alison Pill).
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
Nine, the new album from Blink-182, a band forever associated with adolescence even though the members’ mean age is now 44, arrives haloed in that great teenage emotion: embarrassment.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2019
Verb
Elsewhere, mountainsides are terraced like gigantic stairs by the harvesting of stone, a ceiling vent sits above a bulldozer at the top of an industrial hill like a halo, and a machine 3-D-prints out shapes with cement as though creating decorations with gray icing for an immense cake.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
Comic Leanne Morgan glows in peach for an interview, accessorized with an invisible halo of buzzing nerves clouding her thoughts.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halo
Noun
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The disgust stems both from that aura of obliviousness and from a retrospective knowledge that the sincerity of late-two-thousands indie music was quickly co-opted into a more commercial version of itself.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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But the aura of deep spirituality and tangible, 1,000-year history is impressive.—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Aug. 2025
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Overall, Operation Night Strikers is an excellent collection of shmups from Taito’s glory days in the arcades.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Over the last 12 years since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, there have been so many false dawns about United rekindling their glory days.—
Joe Prince-Wright,
NBC news,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Recently, at the East Hampton Library’s Authors’ Night, attendees could find Christie Brinkley beaming from ear to ear and signing copies of her memoir, Uptown Girl.—
Izzy Baskette,
People.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Once Elio is beamed up to space, the aliens mistake him for the leader of Earth.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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The bill would ban the release of chemicals into the atmosphere to alter the weather, temperature, climate or block sunlight.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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His introspective works would range from stories of ordinary life to more overt surrealism, their atmospheres tinged with dreaminess, eroticism and mysterious tensions.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
17 Aug. 2025
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It is bordered by hummocky deposits, called aureoles, that were formed by landslides from the mountain.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2025
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Initially, scientists believed these features might be flows of salty water or brine, which remained liquid long enough to travel down the aureole.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2025
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Sky glow happens when light reflects off haze and dust particles in the air, creating a diffuse glow that washes out the night sky.—
Harold Wallace,
Space.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Despite its lofty goals, these regulations are failing to improve air quality, protect jobs, and recognize the real-world complexity of goods movement in the 21st century.—
Timothy Jemal,
Oc Register,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Terence Stamp, the strikingly handsome British actor who embodied the swinging sixties and whose versatility shone in Billy Budd, Superman and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, died Sunday, his family told The New York Times.—
Rhett Bartlett,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Aug. 2025
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This method prevents overcrowding and gives each plant its own space to shine.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Halo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halo. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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