SUPERNOVAE Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

supernovas

noun

variants or supernovae

plural of supernova

as in successes

a person or thing that is successful tragically, a shoulder injury cut short the pitching career of one of baseball's brightest supernovas

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Noun

Surely those seeking to restrict access to energy drinks can draw on these successes.

— Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Still, despite these successes, Wall Street is getting tired of waiting for the turnaround efforts to bring Nike back into growth mode.

— Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of successes

Noun

May 9 Atlanta 7, at Dodgers 2 Blake Snell gave up five runs in three innings and the Braves got 12 hits overall, 11 of them singles.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Downstairs, Angelica focuses on all-day European brasserie hits—rabbit rillettes, gravlax, and pickled cucumber salad—while the Bar Gambit leans moodier and more underground, attracting a particular post-work creative Fitzrovia crowd.

— Katharine Sohn, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of hits

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Paramount will have one of it most profitable years in more than 15 years, but that’s come more from trimming costs than fielding blockbusters.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
Kyle Stanley, a media scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno who has studied the MCU, noted that Iron Man was a lower-level hero when the company decided to build a movie around him, and Downey was not the kind of star who anchored blockbusters.

— Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of blockbusters

Noun

Take a resident who voted for only one of the 10 winners but for two of the slate’s three candidates.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
The real winners are focused on whether the tools are actually improving business outcomes, starting with the customer and working backwards to identify where the tech can make the biggest impact.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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