starry
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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
Open’s starry mixed doubles event, but that’s the hope, with the journalist Ben Rothenberg reporting Alcaraz has been planning to compete with none other than Serena Williams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Kevin Cassidy, a 28-year-old former private-equity associate at New Mountain Capital, wasn’t convinced that PE guys were in the midst of a starry glow-up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
Jeanne walked out into the starry night, down the road through her village, and then into the forest that lay beyond.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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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
It had a Michigan State star running back who got starrier.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2021
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
In its way the Super Bowl of Commercials is as much a competition as the game itself, as agencies vie for the biggest, starriest, funniest, most memorable, most meme-able, most flagrantly expensive spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
The Clovers were among the starriest D.C.-minted acts of the era, having recorded piles of hit singles for Atlantic Records in the label’s relatively lean and early days.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021
What hope, what light, Falls from the farthest starriest way On you that pray?
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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