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starry

[stahr-ee] / ˈstɑr i /


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Not to outshine Shohei Ohtani and his starry pals, not to move merch off the field or do huge numbers on it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

In Montecito, the couple became a starry addition to the seaside community’s roster of wealthy residents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Hardly a night goes by without a few starry performances or a riveting game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As I ring the doorbell of Maggie O'Farrell's Edinburgh home, I wonder with some trepidation whether the acclaimed novelist might have become a bit starry after the whirlwind few months she's just had.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

But beneath the starry sky, the field that stretches out below his tree is empty, as though nothing has ever occupied the space but grass and leaves and fog.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The unwritten rules: the bigger, the louder, the splashier, the starrier, the better.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett and film editor Carol Littleton will collect honorary Oscar statuettes at a private, untelevised dinner Tuesday night in Los Angeles that has often been even starrier than the Oscars themselves.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

But Giannis persisted, honed his skills and eventually had to step in for his starrier brother when, during a key competitive game, Thanasis sustained an injury on the court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

You’d also be hard pressed to find a starrier ensemble.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2018

And the song softened, even as heaven by night Softens, from sunnier down to starrier light, And with its moonbright breath Blessed life for death's sake, and for life's sake death.

From Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Stripped of their starriest player and many trusted associates, they’ve morphed into a tighter outfit that plays unselfish team basketball and relies on every player to shoot, rebound and defend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

Brazilian director Karim Ainouz's surreal satire "Rosebush Pruning" premiered on Saturday at the Berlin Film Festival with one of the programme's starriest casts portraying an outrageously spoiled and dysfunctional family descending into chaos.

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

Like the Oscars this year, there was something warmer and lower key than usual about this starriest of after-parties.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023

The soprano — who made her unforgettable Ojai debut 11 years ago while still a student of Dawn Upshaw, that year’s music director — was to have been the festival’s starriest attraction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett




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