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Collectibles have become a major trend of social-driven e-commerce, with everything from Sonny Angels to Smiskis to Monchichis to Labubus all having their moment in the TikTok Shop sun.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
One hour and 23 minutes after launch, the Roman team confirmed that the observatory's solar panels and lower instrument sun shade had deployed successfully.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
As I walk into the heart of the 60th Notting Hill Carnival, the sun is shining and bouncing off the sequins, gems and sparkles of the costumes and decorations surrounding me.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Nike gifted her with a custom shoe, decorated with a graphic of the yellow Philippines sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Those plans to drive to Pasadena, sun ourselves on the beach, cut the rug in a public dance hall.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The holes in the colander will project a grid of crescent suns onto the ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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
That is roughly the mass of 19 suns lost annually, an amount large enough to disrupt the supply of material needed to form new stars.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026
Seems bright — a black hole flared with the light of 10 trillion suns.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
Brass blimps carried miniature false suns and tiny rain clouds over a maze of plants.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
At home, Baldwin sunned in his mother’s love and cared for his little sisters and brothers, changing diapers, minding the little ones and reprimanding the older ones.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2015
From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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 can often be seen sunning himself on the dock, with other sea lions dozing or barking away nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
On an unseasonably warm afternoon, families flocked to the waterfront, sunning themselves before an azure-blue Mediterranean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Or they go on picnics, which is where we begin, on an idyllic afternoon, the Höss family picking berries and sunning themselves.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Gus and Bertha had a whole passel of cats, sleeping under the porch, sunning on the windowsills, swatting bees out in the garden.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
