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Recent Examples of giant star
Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.
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Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Hamal is a giant star in our Milky Way galaxy that dwarfs our sun with a diameter of at least 13 million miles.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.
—Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Hamal is a giant star in our Milky Way galaxy that dwarfs our sun with a diameter of at least 13 million miles.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.
—Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
Noun
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One day this boy wants to be a red star inside those red walls.—
Michael Walker,
The Athletic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Normally, neutrons are bound within atomic nuclei or in the matter making up extraordinarily powerful stars called neutron stars.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The findings, published in the same issue of Nature, provide additional support that a neutron star created the fast radio burst.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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Astronomers have theorized that supernovas such as these are caused by two white dwarfs orbiting each other in a binary star system, when one of them consumes the other.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets possible around white dwarfs.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The material sits on the surface of the white dwarf until there is enough material to ignite a thermonuclear runaway explosion -- a buildup of pressure and heat.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
31 Oct. 2024
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Companies isolate variables, split audiences into test and control groups and measure new experiences against existing ones.—
Amit Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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There are simply too many variables to consider, including the genetic influence of does on their male offspring and the role that maturity plays in antler growth.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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In the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.—
Mihir Zaveri,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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Every 78 to 80 years, the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Giant star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant%20star. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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