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Recent Examples of starburst
The lights are also different heights, which adds to the starburst or firefly effect.
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Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2025
Inspired by archival sketches from legendary 20th-century designer Jean Schlumberger, this exquisite work is made with 64 carats of billowy crystal opals that have vibrant flashes of red, orange, blue, and green, surrounded by diamond starbursts.
—Jill Newman, Robb Report, 12 June 2025
One artwork by Barbecue & Bourbon shows an old-fashioned car at the center of a starburst pattern.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 15 May 2025
This year's creation features a glowing starburst that crowns the Gingerbread White House, sending a message of light and hope.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2025
Inspired by archival sketches from legendary 20th-century designer Jean Schlumberger, this exquisite work is made with 64 carats of billowy crystal opals that have vibrant flashes of red, orange, blue, and green, surrounded by diamond starbursts.
—Jill Newman, Robb Report, 12 June 2025
One artwork by Barbecue & Bourbon shows an old-fashioned car at the center of a starburst pattern.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 15 May 2025
This year's creation features a glowing starburst that crowns the Gingerbread White House, sending a message of light and hope.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for starburst
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These stellar fireworks generated extraordinarily powerful galactic winds, first detected in 2019, spanning a whopping 326,200 light-years, propelling gas and dust outward into the galaxy's vast halo of hot gas, known as the circumgalactic medium, or CGM.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Hinkle opts for flat twists, halo braids, and two-strand twists to minimize manipulation and keep the scalp accessible for moisturizing.—
Larry Stansbury,
Essence,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Another picture of the model lounging recalls a memorable photo of the designer sprawled across her bed, which features a curved sunburst pattern, in a room swathed in florals, lace, and a leopard print rug.—
Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Soldiers in the state units have patches on their left shoulder that show a raven, a sunburst, or a sunburst on top a diamond, each in black and green color schemes.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
17 July 2025
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Initially, scientists believed these features might be flows of salty water or brine, which remained liquid long enough to travel down the aureole.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2025
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Jacob knew from photographs the goblin face, the aureole of whitening hair.—
Lan Samantha Chang,
Harper's Magazine,
14 Aug. 2023
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Shops sell his memorabilia — the boy's face encased in a corona of holy light is on mugs, keychains, rosaries.—
Ruth Sherlock,
NPR,
7 Sep. 2025
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By doing this, astronomers can study the fainter solar atmosphere, the sun's corona, that's hard to see when viewing the entire sun.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Starburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starburst. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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