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They’re also designed with the iconic starburst lid and signature instant seal that locks in freshness instantly, so your food is guaranteed to stay fresh for longer.
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Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
The 24-70mm II uses an 11-blade aperture, so its starbursts show 22 tines.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
The small iris and scattering of light work together to create multipoint starbursts around small points of light.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
The first was smooth and matte green; the second rust-colored and full of little round holes like a sponge; the third gray with a smattering of orange starbursts; and the fourth a darker gray with short white lines running at odd angles, as if covered in fragments of kanji.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
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Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
The 24-70mm II uses an 11-blade aperture, so its starbursts show 22 tines.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
The small iris and scattering of light work together to create multipoint starbursts around small points of light.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
The first was smooth and matte green; the second rust-colored and full of little round holes like a sponge; the third gray with a smattering of orange starbursts; and the fourth a darker gray with short white lines running at odd angles, as if covered in fragments of kanji.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for starburst
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Not so with axions; quantum interference patterns would result in the distribution of axions in a galaxy's dark matter halo to come in peaks and troughs, each extending thousands of light-years.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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The halo of gas surrounding the stars in a galaxy accounts for about 70% of that galaxy’s mass.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Thin slices of translucent selenite clad a console table nearby, while shards of gypsum on cabinet doors radiate in a sunburst motif.Andrew Sessa, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2024
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Jason Schmidt View into Powder Room: Nick Cave’s Arm Peace, 2018, made of cast bronze, and vintage sunburst and tole flowers, hangs on the wall to the right of the kitchen door, at the far end of the entrance hall.Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2024
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Jacob knew from photographs the goblin face, the aureole of whitening hair.Lan Samantha Chang, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
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Like his crossed legs, Cannon’s head and upper torso are framed in flickering swipes of green, as if this is a depiction of a holy man surrounded by an incandescent aureole.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
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This record-breaking feat was conducted by the Parker Solar Probe, which flew to within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun, braving the blistering heat of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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These are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the sun's atmosphere known as the corona.Jordan Green, The Tennessean, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Starburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starburst. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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