afterglow
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Maybe it’s embedded human instinct, an afterglow of developing self-awareness of our own mortality, to consider existential risks.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Infantino had been basking in the warm afterglow of a highly successful World Cup -- the largest ever with 48 teams and co-hosted by three countries, Canada, Mexico and the US.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Europe used to have a grand idea of itself rooted in Christianity, the social bonds of feudalism and the long afterglow of the Roman Empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The couple will still be on a high after all the festivities and luxuriating in the afterglow of the love — and cash — bestowed upon them.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
At first she doesn’t see it—the only light is coming from the kitchen, drifting out to us like the afterglow from another world.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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Still, even with two afterglows in hand, I cannot definitively answer the questions I originally set out to answer.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020
For my thesis, I set out to find afterglows without relying on a trigger from a satellite.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020
And finally, right at the end of graduate school, two actual cosmological afterglows, one of which turned out to have an associated gamma-ray burst.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020
Astronomers looked fruitlessly for afterglows from short-duration gamma-ray bursts found by BeppoSAX and other satellites.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
A foreglow like that I have very rarely seen, and its existence was a puzzle to me till I studied Dr. Aitken’s explanation of the afterglows after sunset.
From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson