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Recent Examples of starlike
Mercury will be the fourth-brightest starlike object after Venus, Jupiter and Sirius.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for starlike
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Even so, the £125m British-record fee received for Isak (which the club insist is actually worth £130m to them due to solidarity payments being waived) is an astronomical fee and should alleviate any concerns about the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules for several windows to come.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
8 Sep. 2025
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Moreover, with your celestial ruler, Uranus, also retrograde in your fifth house of love, spontaneity and unpredictability reign — this could manifest in a sudden crush, a flirtatious encounter or insane sparks with someone who is the complete opposite of your type.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Upcoming celestial events Many sky-gazers around the world witnessed a total lunar eclipse over the weekend.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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Particles within solar flares may reach temperatures more than six times higher than scientists previously believed—offering an explanation to a long-standing astrophysical puzzle about the Sun.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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That level of structure points to either a highly stable magnetic field or an unusual emission mechanism, perhaps tied to extreme astrophysical engines like magnetars.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Aug. 2025
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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
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing for a unique opportunity to study the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas from what could be the best vantage point in the solar system.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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So, this mass misstatement is no help to those erstwhile interstellar explorers.—
Don Lincoln,
Big Think,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Starlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starlike. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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