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afterglow

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




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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

As the fireworks clear from Spain’s 1-0 victory over Argentina Sunday, let’s take a moment to bask in the afterglow and pungent ranch dressing burps of the just-completed 2026 North American World Cup.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 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 cosmic microwave background, which is the faint afterglow left behind by the Big Bang, contains valuable information about the early universe.

From Science Daily Mar. 16, 2026

There was the liquid alarm I saw in the blood-red glare of the sun’s afterglow mirrored in the squared panes of whitewashed frame houses.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

It seemed to be written in the stars, in the glory of the desert dawns, in the haunting afterglows of the sunset.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert




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