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In these events, the gravity of a foreground star and any accompanying planets magnifies the light of a more distant background star, briefly making it appear brighter.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
“Across the Ages” reveals a culture—omnivorous, regenerative, endlessly adaptable—whose dynamic abstract artworks resist any fixed sense of beginning or end, above or below, foreground or background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Faith, family, and national identity — long central themes — have moved from the background to the foreground.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
And then I stumbled upon this car — the car that’s in the foreground of the painting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
In the foreground, on a trapeze, was the heroine.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Power Prefix: fore-
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