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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
Adjective
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When star jasmine blooms in late spring and early summer, a profusion of white, starlike flowers on its evergreen foliage perfumes the entire garden.—
Zoe Gowen,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2026
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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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Following the astronomical success of his genre-bending period film, Mendonça Filho’s inbox is filled to the brim with meeting requests and scripts.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Onlookers in the Northern Hemisphere will get the best chance to view the celestial show from Tuesday night until dawn Wednesday morning, according to EarthSky.—
Avni Trivedi,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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There is no room for small talk or anything surface-level during this celestial exchange.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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To achieve this, physicists propose cooling a cloud of radioactive atoms—such as rubidium-83—to temperatures colder than interstellar space.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Apr. 2026
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Director Nick Castle’s 1984 sci-fi adventure of a trailer park kid recruited to join an interstellar war against Xur and the ruthless Ko-Dan Armada is still a fantastic flick over 40 years after its original theatrical release.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The team aims to expand the model to handle more complex systems, including full 3D plasma simulations and astrophysical environments, as well as applications like modeling turbulence in nuclear fusion reactors.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
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Adiabatic expansion is an important property in thermodynamics, in engines, in astrophysical gases and plasmas, and also in the expanding Universe.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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No direct hits are required; shock waves from a jet can ripple across hundreds of thousands of light-years to churn galactic gas into stars or to extinguish star formation entirely by expelling those gas reservoirs into intergalactic space.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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This name gained popularity in 1978, not too long after Carrie Fisher played the intergalactic princess.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Star-spangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/star-spangled. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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