halo
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That curtain has been swapped out for something entirely new: a design titled “The Things We Know,” featuring a pensive-looking boy and girl beneath a halo of light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The crater appeared as a "large bright spot circled by a dark halo" by the LRO probe, which has been studying the Moon since 2009.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Right now, there’s a halo of rarity around Raising Cane’s due to its newness, which likely adds to the psychosis.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Her head, with its multipoint halo, appears not above the peak but within it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
She was tall and thin—with dark curly hair framing her face in a halo.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Diffuse gas in the two galactic haloes would compress on collision, forming a curved structure like the bow wave from a ship moving through water.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 12, 2023
The glory that now haloes the vineyard valleys of Sonoma and Santa Ynez, Alexander and Edna, the Russian River, and other dales and vales, once belonged to Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Accretion disks are fast-spinning haloes of matter that orbit around black holes at high speeds.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2021
They have gas pumps outside, human-sized, with round discs on top, lit up like pale moons or haloes minus the head.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
New arrivals to paradise seeking halos and wings are viewed by heaven’s longtimers as laughable naifs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Many conventional beams produce "sidelobes" -- blurred halos that reduce image clarity.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026
“I was there, and I was a pop star — my thing was wearing ornate halos all the time,” you might say.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Chinese lanterns hover above their heads like red halos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
They’ve shed their gold-leaf halos, they’ve lost the elongated, flat-chested look they had in stone and wood, they’ve filled out more.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
I’m not ashamed to admit that there have been times when those 32-ounce tubs just stare at me day after day, haloed by the refrigerator light, moving further from consumable and closer to petri dish.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
“The way her hijab haloed Nour’s head” gives her a saintly presence, “or so Jimmy thought.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Keith Haring, the art world’s celebrated graffitist, drew the distinctive red-and-gold album cover, featuring a haloed figure cradling a child.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022
As the couple is careful to acknowledge their continued privilege, in part to forestall criticism, they are also haloed by its golden glow, their pain rendered comfortably, consumably, palatable.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Caravans of water-slicked black carriages lined the streets outside the city’s train stations, their red waiting lights haloed by the rain.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
She became slimmer, blonder, sleeker, her cheekbones carved by shadow, a golden nimbus haloing her hair.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
One of his plates showed the wounded gunman seated on the pavement, the girl clasping his head to her shoulder, the alert hands of policemen and detectives haloing the couple's heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
They weren’t solid gray, but filaments of a hundred different grays and blues and pearls, and they looked like reflections of light wavering on water, with the softest sunburst of amber haloing his pupils.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card?
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Her hair is a frizzy nest haloing her plump white face.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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