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afterglow

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




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This is the afterglow of a celebration, the vibrant hues—caution-tape yellow and highlighter green—testifying to a party, the exhausted forms evidence of its raucousness.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

The cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the Big Bang — shows a small but persistent asymmetry: a preference for one spatial orientation over its mirror image.

From Science Daily May 22, 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 afterglow of the unprecedented second state visit can hardly do harm.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2025

At first she doesn’t see it—the only light is coming from the kitchen, drifting out to us like the afterglow from another world.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

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

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

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

It seemed to be written in the stars, in the glory of the desert dawns, in the haunting afterglows of the sunset.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert




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