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Recent Examples of heavensIts purpose is to take deep panoramic images of the sky, over and over again, every clear night across the next 10 years, making what amounts to a decade-spanning ultrahigh-definition timelapse movie of the entire heavens.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
24 July 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heavens
sky
Noun
Bright stars or planets such as Venus may shine in the dark sky, and the air temperature will drop as the sun disappears.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
12 Aug. 2026
One of the best meteor showers of the year peaks this week, and Mother Nature has given us an almost perfect setup in the sky.