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Sirius

[sir-ee-uhs] / ˈsɪr i əs /
NOUN
Dog Star
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Berkshire Hathaway’s insurers hold the equity of many companies Berkshire owns or holds a large stake in, including Duracell, Occidental Petroleum and Sirius XM.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

He used the giant telescope to capture the twinkling of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

The Sirius patrol, tasked with defending a huge, largely uninhabited swathe of the island in the northeast measuring 972,000 square km, travels across the ice by dogsled.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

Four months later, a cover of The Cranberries' Linger for Sirius XM entered the US Top 100 and became the band's biggest song on Spotify, with 223 million plays.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

The school talked of nothing but Sirius Black for the next few days.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling




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