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Recent Examples of starburst
This year's design, with its glowing starburst and playful skaters, shows how something sweet can also be meaningful.
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Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Set the aperture to f/16, and small, bright points of light render as 14-point starbursts.
—PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
The same diffraction effect that scatters light and reduces effective resolution causes small points of light to render as 14-point starbursts.
—PCMAG, 2 Dec. 2024
Fashion this topper from a dozen finial-style, shatterproof ornaments coated with matte-finish paint and arranged in a striking starburst formation.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2024
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Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Set the aperture to f/16, and small, bright points of light render as 14-point starbursts.
—PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
The same diffraction effect that scatters light and reduces effective resolution causes small points of light to render as 14-point starbursts.
—PCMAG, 2 Dec. 2024
Fashion this topper from a dozen finial-style, shatterproof ornaments coated with matte-finish paint and arranged in a striking starburst formation.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for starburst
Noun
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These currents extend a sort of halo around the globe that helps protect Earth from cosmic radiation.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
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That doesn't necessarily mean dark matter haloes sans galaxies can drift through the cosmos like gigantic ghosts, though.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Think avocado greens, neon sunbursts and tattooed servers.—
Freda Moon,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Housed in an 18-karat ethical yellow gold case measuring 40.5 mm, this timepiece has been paired with a forest green guilloché dial that features a sunburst pattern that radiates from the flying tourbillon at 6 o’clock.—
Sophie Furley,
Robb Report,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Coronal mass ejections — fiery busts of plasma from the sun's corona — can cause space weather conditions that threaten our planet in a few different ways.—
Tom Brown,
Space.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Banerjee attributed this phenomenon to electrical discharges in a corona surrounding individual water droplets, but Zare wanted to investigate this phenomenon a bit further.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Starburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starburst. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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