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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

The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Astronomers looked fruitlessly for afterglows from short-duration gamma-ray bursts found by BeppoSAX and other satellites.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

In the evening afterglows it swam in as many colors as the Roman Campagna.

From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


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