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Villanova, which has won two national championships over the past decade, parted ways with coach Kyle Neptune after the season ended.—Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2025 This could explain why Neptune’s auroras were concealed for so long.—Abigail Adams, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025 This is because Neptune’s magnetic field has an odd orientation, which Voyager 2 revealed is tilted by 47 degrees relative to the planet’s axis of rotation.—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025 With small nuclear fission reactors — and perhaps fusion power plants — Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Callisto, Saturn's moon Titan, Neptune's moon Triton and the whole Kuiper Belt may come into range.—Dave S. Brody, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Neptune
Word History
Etymology
Latin Neptunus
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of Neptune was
before the 12th century
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