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afterglow

[af-ter-gloh, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˌgloʊ, ˈɑf- /




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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

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




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