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starry

[stahr-ee] / ˈstɑr i /


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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

D’Angelo’s children introduced the medley, which was set against a backdrop of floor to ceiling windows looking out on a starry sky.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

They had a starry roster, recent wins over international giants like England and Brazil, and they had just been crowned African Cup of Nations champions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Highlights of the starry season not listed here include Daniel Radcliffe in “Every Brilliant Thing” and Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in “The Fear of 13.”

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

Only the expanse of the indifferent, infinite starry sky could contain his ferocious, surging hurt.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

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

How did Cienfuegos accomplish what some starrier productions have failed to do?

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 13, 2023

The festival had been starrier then, he thought; he’d interviewed Jon Hamm and Annette Bening, and run into Blythe Danner on the street.

From Washington Post Jan. 29, 2023

A starrier lustre of lordlier music rose Beyond the sundering bar of seas and snows When Chaucer's thought took life and light from his And England's crown was one with Italy's.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI 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

Back then John was cementing his status as the starriest of superstars with two shows he rightfully described in his 2019 memoir as “a complete triumph.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 18, 2022

From the dome     Of starriest Night two blest Immortals come,   To bear us spheral-ward to God's own mercy-seat.

From Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics by Charles Sangster




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