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Recent Examples of starry The starry cast included Matthew Lillard as the sleazy TV star that Zach's girlfriend dumps him for, as well as Gabrielle Union, Anna Paquin, Kieran Culkin, and the late Paul Walker. Jessica Wang, EW.com, 30 May 2025 While the naked manicure trend has been reigning supreme among celebrities, Dua Lipa has forwent the current nail artless aesthetic for something altogether more starry and summer-ready. Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 May 2025 And Washington couldn’t afford to miss a performance of the starry revival of the beloved Shakespearean tragedy, which has broken box office records. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025 Solo Leveling was the big winner Sunday night at the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, taking home anime of the year, best action, best new series, and multiple performance and music honors in a starry ceremony that brought together anime’s most passionate global fans. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for starry
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Adjective
  • Yet these same conditions—distance from anthropogenic light sources, a mountainous altitude above the cloud line, a crisp desert atmosphere—provide the baselines for Rubin to access the faintest of faint celestial objects.
    Michael Jones McKean, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
  • Related article Largest celestial object of its kind detected in the distant universe The new images represent just over 10 hours of test observations, offering a brief preview of the observatory’s decade-long mission to explore the mysteries of the universe like never before.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • The two have flirted with the idea of a romantic relationship many times since then, but have yet to truly go there onscreen.
    EW.com, EW.com, 27 June 2025
  • Eldest daughter Nancy wrote incisive comic and romantic novels about her social set—as well as a sendup of fascism, Wigs on the Green.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • The longest Prime Day ever is around the corner — but Amazon is giving us a preview of the stellar discounts to come.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • Capping off a stellar match between two of WWE’s most beloved babyfaces, Rhodes was able to capitalize on Orton’s own decision to expose a turnbuckle to earn himself a WWE Championship match at SummerSlam in August.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • This sheer volume makes manual auditing impractical and reinforces the need for intelligent tools that can scale.
    Prashant Kondle, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • By contrast, the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands have been allocated to Wi-Fi for a long time, are heavily used, and modifying existing devices to stop using parts of the bands would be impractical.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The agency would terminate missions currently exploring Jupiter, on the way to study an asteroid, and approaching interstellar space.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
  • This realization reconfigures the entire book, recasting their ongoing dialogue and seemingly cordial relations as an interstellar jail—and the novel itself into an extended, especially cruel prison sentence.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rick Pitino infamously benched his star wing RJ Luis in the final minutes of St. John’s second-round NCAA tournament loss to Arkansas, but Luis still had a great season, winning Big East Player of the Year and consensus All-American honors.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Arguably the biggest transaction of the offseason for the Kansas City Chiefs was star tight end Travis Kelce pushing off retirement and deciding to come back for his 13th NFL season.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025

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“Starry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starry. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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