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the skies

noun as in firmament

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You can’t rely on the sky’s color, which can be deceiving: In 2020, wildfires turned San Francisco’s sky dark orange, but air quality was actually worse after the sun returned and the skies looked more normal, because by then smoke particles were dropping closer to the ground, into the air people breathe.

But the issue followed him into the skies of the south Atlantic, where he said he was “absolutely confident” that the “vast majority of farms and farmers” would not be affected by the changes.

From BBC

Look to the skies late on Sunday night into early Monday morning and you may well see some shooting stars as the Leonid meteor shower peaks.

From BBC

But when more than 300 Japanese planes swooped into the skies above Honolulu's Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack, the United States knew they had to do more to protect the country.

In the skies above the Ukrainian capital, the buzz of drones is the stuff of urban nightmares.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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