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afterglow

[af-ter-gloh, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˌgloʊ, ˈɑf- /




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Infantino had been basking in the warm afterglow of a highly successful World Cup -- the largest ever with 48 teams and co-hosted by three countries, Canada, Mexico and the US.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

We lived in the missions’ afterglow, with orange-flavored Tang, syndicated “Star Trek” reruns, and “Star Wars” filling in for actual lunar landings.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

The couple will still be on a high after all the festivities and luxuriating in the afterglow of the love — and cash — bestowed upon them.

From MarketWatch Apr. 13, 2026

The cosmic microwave background, which is the faint afterglow left behind by the Big Bang, contains valuable information about the early universe.

From Science Daily Mar. 16, 2026

The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Still, even with two afterglows in hand, I cannot definitively answer the questions I originally set out to answer.

From Scientific American Nov. 17, 2020

For my thesis, I set out to find afterglows without relying on a trigger from a satellite.

From Scientific American Nov. 17, 2020

And finally, right at the end of graduate school, two actual cosmological afterglows, one of which turned out to have an associated gamma-ray burst.

From Scientific American Nov. 17, 2020

Astronomers looked fruitlessly for afterglows from short-duration gamma-ray bursts found by BeppoSAX and other satellites.

From Textbooks Oct. 13, 2016

A foreglow like that I have very rarely seen, and its existence was a puzzle to me till I studied Dr. Aitken’s explanation of the afterglows after sunset.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson




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