firmament
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Singer Ari Lennox operates in a challenging middle-ground in the R&B firmament.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
Still, his place in the basketball firmament was long since secured.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
Not all of our stars are onscreen; more than two dozen are in the Michelin firmament.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
An appeal for new designs produced unusual ideas, including a glass roof, a green "eco-roof", a massive flame instead of a spire, and a spire topped by a vertical laser shooting into the firmament.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
How did Donne know that the new philosophers were seeking new worlds, not only by thinking of the planets as worlds but also by looking for worlds elsewhere in the firmament?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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