heavens

noun

plural of heaven
as in sky
the expanse of air surrounding the earth the starry heavens the space shuttle gradually disappeared into the heavens

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Recent Examples of heavens The queen of pop swapped her Confessions II-era shiny golden doll-like curls for a high-to-the-heavens mullet. — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 22 June 2026 Oh, heavens to Betsy, not the chest hair! — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2026 Yes, the summer festival season is here (thank heavens). — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 28 May 2026 Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope. — Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 Close by, Cassiopeia the Queen and Cepheus the King hang high in the northwest heavens in the early evening. — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026 These injudicious, blunt-force tariffs do get undone almost as quickly as they are slapped on, thank heavens. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026 Dora comes every Friday and makes sure of that, thank heavens. — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 21 Jan. 2026 The Spirit Resonance is a gift of heavens, a natural talent one is born with. — Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
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sky
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  • Here, Monet painted his monumental Nymphéas series—around 250 canvases—capturing shifting reflections of sky, willow, and blossom.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • However, this potential sky show isn’t a result of a coronal mass ejection (CME), the intense solar eruptions responsible for some of the most widespread aurora events in recent years.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
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