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Recent Examples of star-spangled
Many of the iconic works from this time broke precedent by portraying morally ambiguous superheroes who weren’t pure or star-spangled.
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Hazlitt, 21 July 2022
Hazlitt, 21 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for star-spangled
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Although parts of California have already experienced triple-digit temperatures, the new season doesn’t officially arrive until the summer solstice — an astronomical event that marks the longest day of the year.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
8 June 2025
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The summer solstice is an astronomical event marking the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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This is especially true with your celestial ruler, Venus, hovering over your eighth house of mergers and shared investments.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
9 June 2025
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Mood-wise, this first section is magnificently done (although the celestial spa-music score by the Newton Brothers is a twinkle too much).—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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The Trump administration proposes terminating the Juno mission, which is the only spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter, as well as the New Horizons probe that visited Pluto a decade ago and is now blazing a trail toward interstellar space.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 June 2025
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The next several thousand years will see the nebula disperse, according to NASA, as radiation pouring out from the central dying star pushes the material ever outward into interstellar space.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 June 2025
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Guy is a Green Lantern, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic organization that polices various sectors of the cosmos.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
11 June 2025
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Since Arnold Schwarzenegger threw down with an intergalactic alien super-hunter in the jungle back in 1987, the franchise has churned out a sci-fi action flick every so often to keep the Predators alive and kicking in pop culture.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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“Star-spangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/star-spangled. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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