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corona

[kuh-roh-nuh] / kəˈroʊ nə /


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A corona of cosmic doom shades the horizon of “Miss Wolcott’s Ghost.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

House had asked Walker the moment the glowing corona of totality disappeared and the sun re-emerged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The corona is the Sun's extremely hot outer atmosphere, and during most eclipses it appears white or silvery.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

During a total solar eclipse, the Moon completely blocks the bright disk of the Sun, making the much fainter solar corona visible.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

I wasn't paying attention to anything else—just trying to set the tableaux—and when Javi finally shuffled into position, the whole moon glowed behind him, casting a pale corona around his head.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

"Such widespread coronae have implications for the removal of hydrocarbons emitted by trees, subtle tree leaf damage and could have broader implications for the health of trees, forests and the atmosphere."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

Images of Miranda taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft reveal enormous ridges and steep cliffs known as coronae.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026

The circular features associated with coronae are tectonic ridges and cracks, and most of the mountains of Venus also owe their existence to tectonic forces.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Its crust consists of 75% lowland lava plains, numerous volcanic features, and many large coronae, which are the expression of subsurface volcanism.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Who needs Parthenon or Birth of Venus when blue lights swirl low, pink coronas kiss clouds, neon greens arc, deep reds stripe across stars.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023

To do this, my colleagues and I sent biologically identical protein coronas to 17 different labs in the U.S. for analysis.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2023

It was jacaranda season when I moved to the city, and simply to catch sight of those trees, with their lavender coronas, feels akin to coming home.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022

She mainly depicted the female form, drawing it with big, wiry loops surrounded by coronas of bright color.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2021

Eeben Axelroot’s airplane with coronas of flame dancing around the wings as it touched down on a field of waving pink grass.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver


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