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Recent Examples of starburst
Throw in a retro neon sign, preferably featuring a starburst or flashing arrow, and there’s just no passing by.
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Melanie Haiken, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
DenicMic Patterned Solar Lights, 10-Pack Check out these pathway lights that cast a radiant starburst effect.
—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
At 20mm f/22, the lens draws crisp, multi-point starbursts around bright points of light.
—PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
One artwork by Barbecue & Bourbon shows an old-fashioned car at the center of a starburst pattern.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 19 May 2025
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Melanie Haiken, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
DenicMic Patterned Solar Lights, 10-Pack Check out these pathway lights that cast a radiant starburst effect.
—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
At 20mm f/22, the lens draws crisp, multi-point starbursts around bright points of light.
—PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
One artwork by Barbecue & Bourbon shows an old-fashioned car at the center of a starburst pattern.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for starburst
Noun
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In the center is a central bulge of stars, and the whole thing is surrounded by a vast halo of stars and dark matter about a million light-years wide.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
6 Nov. 2025
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Pistachio and fig lend it some Mediterranean indulgence, and its radius hovers around you like a halo.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Speaking of lids, they’re crafted with Tupperware’s classic sunburst design and feature the brand’s signature instant seal lid to lock in freshness and prevent leaks and spills.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
28 Nov. 2025
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Or a spinny orange swirl of spaghetti pomodoro atop Porta’s Tommaso platter, which features sardines in a cerulean sunburst ($198)?—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Observers in Greenland's Scoresby Sund, Iceland's Reykjanes and Snæfellsnes peninsulas, and the Spanish cities of Leon, Burgos and Valladolid will be within the path and see the sun's ghostly corona.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
4 Jan. 2026
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Forecasters say the event is caused by a coronal mass ejection, a large expulsion of plasma and magnetic field from the sun's corona, that will pass by Earth after occurring on Dec. 20.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Starburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starburst. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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