as in interstellar
existing or occurring between galaxies
They loved any movie about intergalactic space travel.
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Yet Grace is the one who wakes up in space, and this story emerges nonlinearly, narrative flashbacks like bursts of memory ripping through his brain, discombobulated after a long intergalactic coma.
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Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2026
Yet Grace is the one who wakes up in space, and this story emerges nonlinearly, narrative flashbacks like bursts of memory ripping through his brain, discombobulated after a long intergalactic coma.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
This isn’t just a local problem; the Astrophage are eating stars everywhere, like ants at an intergalactic picnic.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
This event stripped gas and dust from these galaxies, forming a gas stream and leaving to drift in intergalactic space.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026
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Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2026
Yet Grace is the one who wakes up in space, and this story emerges nonlinearly, narrative flashbacks like bursts of memory ripping through his brain, discombobulated after a long intergalactic coma.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
This isn’t just a local problem; the Astrophage are eating stars everywhere, like ants at an intergalactic picnic.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
This event stripped gas and dust from these galaxies, forming a gas stream and leaving to drift in intergalactic space.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intergalactic
interstellar
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All of this ancient-looking hardware was tasked with overseeing the operational safety of the Voyager craft, which are currently well over 16 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
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Ryland then unwittingly finds himself on an interstellar mission that includes meeting an alien, Rocky.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Intergalactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intergalactic. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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