firmament

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For those who grew up with Ms. Blume’s star fixed immutably in their literary firmament, it’s hard to think of her success as a fluke of time and place.

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In Washington’s Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium Wednesday stood the great and good of the Republican firmament—senators, representatives, governors, cabinet secretaries, the president himself.

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The pre-Revolutionary era aligned with advances in knowledge of the heavenly bodies, sparked by telescopes and a firmament not-yet-obstructed by skyscrapers and pollution.

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Still, his place in the basketball firmament was long since secured.

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Even Simon Harley-Dickinson must have wondered, from his ever-changing position in the theatrical firmament: What had become of Alexander, Beowulf, and Cassiopeia Incorrigible, the three wards of Lord Fredrick Ashton, of Ashton Place, England?

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