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as in galaxies
a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light
it's difficult to see the stars at night in the middle of the city because of all the streetlights
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as in principals
the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show
when the star of the school play came down with the flu on opening night, her understudy got to go on
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as in celebrities
a person who is widely known and usually much talked about
the public's endless fascination with stars
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Recent Examples of stars
The shining stars of the property are the Fairmont Gold Suites, which occupy the southwest corners of each guest room floor.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2026
Gone are the days when stars seemed to go from strength to strength — when Tom Hanks, for instance, followed Philadelphia with Forrest Gump, and Forrest Gump with Apollo 13, and Apollo 13 with Toy Story.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
Astronomers are particularly interested in the zone’s chemistry because its gas feeds into the matter from which stars grow.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
Growth factors, peptides, extracts, Centella asiatica, and vitamin K are the stars of the Youth Eye Complex.
—Iman Balagam, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2026
As a principal investigator on NASA’s Hubble space telescope and NASA’s Spitzer space telescope, one of his foremost interests was the lambent of arcs of streaking stars called stellar streams that swirl around the outskirts of the Milky Way.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Feb. 2026
While stars of all colors and masses — from blue giants to red dwarfs — will burn through their fuel and die, the brown dwarfs of the Universe will persist.
—Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
Buyers are really looking for a big, broad comedy with stars.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
Incredibly, Brockington finished with more points than stars Cole Kelly and Mason Martin had combined.
—Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2026
Gone are the days when stars seemed to go from strength to strength — when Tom Hanks, for instance, followed Philadelphia with Forrest Gump, and Forrest Gump with Apollo 13, and Apollo 13 with Toy Story.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
Astronomers are particularly interested in the zone’s chemistry because its gas feeds into the matter from which stars grow.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
Growth factors, peptides, extracts, Centella asiatica, and vitamin K are the stars of the Youth Eye Complex.
—Iman Balagam, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2026
As a principal investigator on NASA’s Hubble space telescope and NASA’s Spitzer space telescope, one of his foremost interests was the lambent of arcs of streaking stars called stellar streams that swirl around the outskirts of the Milky Way.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Feb. 2026
While stars of all colors and masses — from blue giants to red dwarfs — will burn through their fuel and die, the brown dwarfs of the Universe will persist.
—Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
Buyers are really looking for a big, broad comedy with stars.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
Incredibly, Brockington finished with more points than stars Cole Kelly and Mason Martin had combined.
—Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stars
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The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2026
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Studying this region of the Milky Way can offer clues as to how galaxies like our own formed, said Steve Longmore, an astrophysicist at Liverpool John Moores University in England, in the same statement.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2026
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These threats and warnings have left teachers and principals, who historically have aimed to keep students safe when expressing their views, on tenterhooks.—
Jeffrey S. Solochek,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
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The Education Department first told principals to prepare for the possibility of a remote snow day Friday night, when people were still out of town during the midwinter break.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 2026
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More recently, social media has allowed people even more direct access to celebrities, blurring the lines between one-sided and reciprocal interactions.—
Lorena O’Neil,
Rolling Stone,
27 Feb. 2026
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Clinton also appeared in a number of pictures released in the Epstein files with celebrities or in more casual surroundings with the faces of women redacted.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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The 100-light-year-wide expanse of the Rosette Nebula is estimated to have a staggering mass the equivalent to 10,000 suns and has been sculpted and eroded by the radiation from nearby stars.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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The bright star is so large that more than 400 million suns could fit inside of it.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
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The festival — which focuses on Y2K era rock with past headliners like Green Day, Blink-182, My Chemical Romance, and the Killers — has taken place at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds every October from 2022 to 2025.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
28 Feb. 2026
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The Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival brings an eclectic lineup to this year’s event with headliners Cage the Elephant, Fisher, LCD Soundsystem, T-Pain and The Lumineers appearing among more than 130 acts performing this year.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2026
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The arenas open their doors to big personalities from across scenes and generations.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2026
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Initially boosted during Jeff Zucker’s time as CEO, the news outlet has lost viewers and some influence as subsequent managers tried to tamp down some of its more outspoken personalities and tendencies.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2026
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Those figures include contracts that LAHSA manages for the county and the city, and LAHSA said the city was late in transferring it money, contributing to the delays.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Talarico proved unusually eloquent, impressing figures as diverse as the podcaster Joe Rogan and the former President Barack Obama.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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The dominance from UConn’s superstars is by design as the regular season winds down.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026
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Major pop superstars have been nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this fall.—
Andrea Dresdale,
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Stars.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stars. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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