sun
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As the sun rises over the Indian Ocean, waves lap onto the golden sands while palm fronds rustle in the cool sea breeze.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
They can be seen each year when the Earth passes through a denser clump of the comet’s debris during its orbit around the sun, Thompson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
"When solar panels were still relatively affordable, we bought one and kept moving it around to follow the sun," the 60-year-old, displaced by the fighting between Israel and Hamas, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
You’re there getting shells prepped for operations, and the sun will be rising over the ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
He holds me while my shoulders shake and the sun relinquishes its last beam, giving way to blackness.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Its smaller neighbor, with a mass of roughly 600,000 suns, is accumulating matter at a much higher rate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
In Nepal's eastern plains, rival political flags depicting blue bells and red suns flutter over tea farms and brick homes -- symbols of a local election campaign shaping landmark nationwide polls.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The background of the artwork echoes Van Gogh's Starry Night with two suns hanging in the sky that aim to represent the meeting of the two artists and their styles.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Seems bright — a black hole flared with the light of 10 trillion suns.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
In the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, at the very center of our galaxy, sits a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as two-and-a-half million suns.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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A barred owl hooted and shook its feathers in a sycamore above the creek, and red-bellied cooters sunned themselves on half-submerged logs.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026
Backstage at the Blue Note jazz club, Wyclef Jean spreads out on a couch with the air of a sunned cat, his temperament dialed warm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
She settled on a grassy knoll, sunned herself and took a nap.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
He sunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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On the banks of the Waal, the Dutch branch of the Rhine, swimmers are sunning themselves on a Nijmegen beach that didn't exist before the river level dropped a few months ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
He found the Cynic sunning himself beside his ceramic home and offered to grant the man any favor or fulfill any request.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
In almost every case, they were nearly motionless at the surface, sunning themselves in the warm morning light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
He has been to the spot where he was attacked at least 30 times and while he has seen alligators before, they usually are sunning on the back or stay far away.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
He slowed to an idle and shouted something to a large blond woman who was sunning herself alone, about fifty yards from Abbey and me.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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