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Recent Examples of star-spangled
Many of the iconic works from this time broke precedent by portraying morally ambiguous superheroes who weren’t pure or star-spangled.
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Hazlitt, 21 July 2022
Hazlitt, 21 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for star-spangled
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Mercury will be the fourth-brightest starlike object after Venus, Jupiter and Sirius.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
29 Sep. 2025
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Finding the cosmic wonder The research team utilized data from various astronomical surveys and the MeerKAT radio telescope to investigate the region around LMCN 1971-08a.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The celestial events happen annually or at other intervals, NASA says.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Luna’s first quarter phase is equivalent to a celestial checkpoint, where the story brought on by the lunar cycle takes a turn.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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The object, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third interstellar visitor ever detected, after Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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On his popular YouTube channel, Cool Worlds, Kipping takes viewers on in-depth explorations of subjects like planetary systems, interstellar travel, and the search for life beyond Earth.—
Adam Frank,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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The project demanded 700,000 node hours and more than 17,000 GPUs using AthenaPK, an open-source astrophysical code.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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By studying gravitational waves related to the event, the researchers were able to observe an astrophysical phenomenon that does not emit light.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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The stars will all burn out; the corpses of these stars will radiate all their heat away and cool to absolute zero; the stellar remnants will gravitationally interact, ejecting the majority of objects into intergalactic space, while the few remaining black holes grow to enormous sizes.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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They’ll be joined by newcomers to the goofy intergalactic adventure, including Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman and Anthony Carrigan.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Star-spangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/star-spangled. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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