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halo

[hay-loh] / ˈheɪ loʊ /


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“What it does is restore the brand halo at the top of the market,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Wednesday, teachers were busy helping students with artwork in various stages of completion, including a painting of Boyle with a halo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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 black hair, silvered by dust on one side, stood out in a halo around her head.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

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

Our advice is to not be impressed by these general haloes but instead to focus on specific credentials.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2020

Above them, the ceiling light dropped haloes in their hair as they listened on.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

One could scarcely see past all the crowns, roses, shamrocks, halos, piles of gold, angel wings, laurel leaves, roaring lions—the list went on and on.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

Angels pride was evident throughout the space, from the beer mirrors on the wall to the black plastic coaster stand adorned with a large red haloed “A.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

Rob Flaherty, the White House’s director of digital strategy, also tweeted an image of Biden smiling with red eyes, his hair haloed against a dark background.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2022

Her beautiful head was haloed by the streetlamp.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

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

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

Her hair is a frizzy nest haloing her plump white face.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton


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