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a dwelling place of perfect happiness for the soul after death
a belief that warriors felled in battle will be raised to the sky
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Recent Examples of sky
That was seen as a fireball blazing across the sky in broad daylight by dozens of witnesses.
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CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
For the multitudes who dreamed of sipping their beer in the open air beneath the sunny skies on San Pedro Street in downtown San Jose, your day has arrived.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Overhead a variety of tropical birds fly through the sky and perch on treetops, their calls providing a unique soundtrack to your stay.
—John Newton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2026
Cool, clear mornings give way to afternoons shaped by the low winter arc of the sun, painting the mountains in long shadows and the sky in improbable color.
—Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
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CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
For the multitudes who dreamed of sipping their beer in the open air beneath the sunny skies on San Pedro Street in downtown San Jose, your day has arrived.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Overhead a variety of tropical birds fly through the sky and perch on treetops, their calls providing a unique soundtrack to your stay.
—John Newton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2026
Cool, clear mornings give way to afternoons shaped by the low winter arc of the sun, painting the mountains in long shadows and the sky in improbable color.
—Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sky
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The look includes the team’s deep indigo blue with neon blue, pink and purple diamonds running up the sides and onto the chest.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Feb. 2026
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The bags are available in blues and lavender hues alongside seasonal prints to mirror the open skies and new beginnings.—
Kanika Talwar,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Kendrick Lamar and Chanel are a match made in fashion heaven, and on Sunday night the two made history.—
Alexandra Hildreth,
Vogue,
2 Feb. 2026
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Close by, Cassiopeia the Queen and Cepheus the King hang high in the northwest heavens in the early evening.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
1 Feb. 2026
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What a moment of bliss this was!—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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The Florida heat only turns up the temperature for these two enemies turned co-workers, but is there a future of cool bliss?—
Amanda Favazza,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2026
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City of London skyline with 20 Fenchurch Street, affectionately nicknamed the Walkie Talkie as light fades at dusk on 27th November 2025 in London, United Kingdom.—
Hugh Leask,Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
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At the very top, however, no operators were present at all, ensuring a sense of sublimity as Honnold mounted the final stretch, high above the rest of the Taipei skyline.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Feb. 2026
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Or is there something really amiss in this paradise?—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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And while the visions of uncannily artificial paradise might recall Rousseau, or the curvy, geometrically rounded bodies suggest the work of Colombian Fernando Botero, Angulo’s young women appear more self-aware and self-assertive than the subjects of either of those artists.—
Benjamin Lima,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
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The car as movement, as thing, as cat, as artifact, as register, as passion, as desire, as possession, materiality, metaphor, theory, practice, horizon of understanding, and as a journey across this horizon.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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The weather was clearm with a waning crescent moon hovering low on the eastern horizon, as four humans strapped in for a rocket ride to space.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Feb. 2026
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The Friend Dog movies are a regular fixture of the cinematic firmament, but Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s drama, based on Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award–winning 2018 novel, distinguishes itself by not trying to anthropomorphize its central animal, to enter its mind and give it a voice.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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Now, 23 years later, Art Basel and the surrounding bacchanalia of Miami Art Week are firmly ensconced, even if the contemporary art market has been in the doldrums, and the city seems to have secured its place in the art firmament – at least in December.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
30 Nov. 2025
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“Sky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sky. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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