halo
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Originally, it had a little halo, but it broke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
The featured object is NGC 6426, a globular cluster located in the outer halo of the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
“When we win in bras, we create a halo across the entire VS brand,” Super said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
The total car weight cannot be compared because of the increased mass of the modern safety systems, such as the halo head-protection structure.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
“She said I looked like an angel, with a halo all around me.”
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
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We should be hesitant to place halos around the heads of people we admire, just as we shouldn’t totally condemn those with whom we disagree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
"You have this self-interacting dark matter which transports energy, and it tends to transport energy outwards in these halos," says Gurian.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026
Mr. Lloyd’s buttery tone is set within soaring lines, circular loops and halos of sound from Mr. Sewell’s custom-made electric guitar, and answered by delicate figures from Mr. Moran’s piano.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
“It’s whatever you want. No limitations. If you’re into angels and halos and ghost dogs, then cool. If you wanna fly, you do you. If you wanna go back in time, knock yourself out.”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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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
In one convent that we visited in Seville, for example, icons of haloed saints and a crucified Christ hang under ceilings with intricate patterns of inlaid wood.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
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
Light burst and haloed around the antique before quickly fading away.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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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
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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
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Her hair is a frizzy nest haloing her plump white face.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
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