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[stahr-ee] / ˈstɑr i /


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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

Just as closely watched has been the string of starry casting announcements — and one very high-profile departure, Helena Bonham Carter, who departed the show shortly after production began.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2026

The Lyrids meteor shower reached its peak this week too, with amazing starry displays seen across the country.

From BBC Apr. 26, 2026

Lady Gaga, Bieber, Carpenter and Bruno Mars are set to lead a starry list of performers that also includes Lauryn Hill and a tribute to late rocker Ozzy Osbourne featuring Post Malone.

From Barron's Feb. 1, 2026

In a great circle, under the starry sky and the waxing moon, they now made their bivouac.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

The “Star Wars” universe just got even starrier.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2023

It has a typically imposing cast — including Lindsay Crouse, Alma Cuervo, John Rubinstein, Tony Roberts — that would have been a bit starrier, but Judith Ivey tore a tendon during previews.

From New York Times Nov. 15, 2021

Why, Ralph, no falcon, Pole or Swede, Has got a starrier eye.

From A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Browning, Robert

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

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

Yesterday the wild weather, fine to see from the shelter of our billet, brought me apprehensions for to-night's departure, but when I woke the sky was the purest and starriest that one could dream of!

From Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 by Chevrillon, André




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