as in interstellar
existing or occurring between galaxies
They loved any movie about intergalactic space travel.
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Even stranger, the negative space between the stars had flipped to positive, forming a soft, almost palpable blackness that embraced the stars and reached all the way to Earth, enveloping it and me in the same intergalactic blanket.
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Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
On its voyage through intergalactic space, that light traverses countless clumps of dark matter.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
One of the reasons David Ellison loves blockbuster movies is the way in which a spectacle can contain a more intimate story — how a battle for intergalactic peace or control of an empire can really be a story about a family.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Joining the ranks of books like Yume Kitasei’s The Stardust Grail is Molly Tanzer’s novella, which follows a group of misfits trying to infiltrate the intergalactic Greenwood Museum.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
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Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
On its voyage through intergalactic space, that light traverses countless clumps of dark matter.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
One of the reasons David Ellison loves blockbuster movies is the way in which a spectacle can contain a more intimate story — how a battle for intergalactic peace or control of an empire can really be a story about a family.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Joining the ranks of books like Yume Kitasei’s The Stardust Grail is Molly Tanzer’s novella, which follows a group of misfits trying to infiltrate the intergalactic Greenwood Museum.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intergalactic
interstellar
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The journey to decode the universe's recipe for planet formation is long, but every interstellar visitor brings us closer.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Aided by the survey, York also pursued his own research questions, including unidentified diffuse interstellar bands and cataloguing the spectra, or brightness at different wavelengths, of quasi-stellar objects to study the three-dimensional distribution of intergalactic gas.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Intergalactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intergalactic. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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