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Recent Examples of starlike
When star jasmine blooms in late spring and early summer, a profusion of white, starlike flowers on its evergreen foliage perfumes the entire garden.
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Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
Mercury will be the fourth-brightest starlike object after Venus, Jupiter and Sirius.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
Mercury will be the fourth-brightest starlike object after Venus, Jupiter and Sirius.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for starlike
Adjective
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Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Apr. 2026
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During the final week of March, Venus began setting after the end of astronomical twilight, that is, in a completely dark sky, a circumstance that will persist until late August.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Their flyby of the moon even included some celestial sightseeing besides yielding rich science — a significant step toward landing boot prints near the moon’s south pole in just two years.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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If this quest advances at the breakneck pace Isaacman desires, then Earth’s celestial sidekick will also become a place of profound scientific revelations.—
Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Many of the iconic works from this time broke precedent by portraying morally ambiguous superheroes who weren’t pure or star-spangled.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
21 July 2022
Adjective
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Sloshing out from the inaccessible hearts of collapsing stars and from the tumultuous spacetime churnings of merging black holes and neutron stars, gravitational waves provide deep, fundamental insights about these faraway astrophysical systems that are otherwise unavailable.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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This chemical information could then be used to constrain astrophysical models of the Wolf-Rayet scenario for the start of the solar system.—
James Dinneen,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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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“Starlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starlike. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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