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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
Adjective
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So, meteorological spring begins on March 1, while astronomical spring starts on March 20, the day of the spring equinox, according to AccuWeather.—
Mariyam Muhammad,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Jan. 2026
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Thanks to the series’ rabid fandom and Tierney’s poignant direction, those synchs have received astronomical streaming boosts, as reported by Billboard.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The night sky is buzzing with celestial activity this month.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
13 Jan. 2026
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Like Capricorn’s celestial ruler, Saturn, Evan operates with an internal moral compass, often carrying the weight of accountability for those around him.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 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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Both boson stars and Q-balls, which live under the more general heading of exotic astrophysical dark objects (EADOs), are difficult to detect.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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The work also demonstrates how astrophysical objects, especially those in extreme environments, can reveal tiny violations of gravity’s foundational laws, such as the equivalence principle or the inverse-square law.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Dec. 2025
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The trio makes the decision to make a break from the Greenland shelter and head south towards France and the location of the Clarke interstellar comet crater.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Ever since it was first spotted hurtling through the solar system, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has maintained that there’s a chance mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a technological object sent by an extraterrestrial civilization.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Starlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starlike. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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