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[ih-klips] / ɪˈklɪps /






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A boom on that scale would eclipse historical parallels such as the construction of the railroads, the electricity grid or the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Another called secondary eclipse, which is the method we used for this study, is when the planet passes behind its star, and we can measure how much light is lost.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the op-ed, Dunham wrote about the moment she met her daughter, who she said announced herself "13 days late, in the face of a solar eclipse and a meteor shower".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Her daughter would arrive 13 days late, she wrote, “in the face of a solar eclipse and meteor shower,” which places the child’s birth date around Aug. 12.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

If there’s an eclipse of the moon, she thinks that we did something wrong, and she prays.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

The Romans saw meteor showers and eclipses as divine auguries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Pamela Paul got hooked on total solar eclipses in 2017 and has been chasing them ever since.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The corona is the Sun's extremely hot outer atmosphere, and during most eclipses it appears white or silvery.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

While there will be smaller solar eclipses over the next few years, the next total eclipse will not take place until 23 September 2090.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The man hangs his long arms from the top bar of the truck canopy; he eclipses the ruined village, the fields, the rising sun.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

As stocks ride high and the bull market turns four years old, equities not only have eclipsed housing as the most valuable U.S. household asset, but the gap between the two has kept growing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday began examining one of its top justice's ties to a jailed banker, in an unprecedented crisis that has eclipsed the country's presidential election campaign.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

For a while this summer, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were in the doldrums, eclipsed by the shinier lights of surging artificial-intelligence stocks and prediction markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Both records have long-since been eclipsed, but Hoy’s influence lives on in the visual signals umpires use to indicate strikes at the plate and out and safe calls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Half the yard was eclipsed from my view.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Tuesday’s mixed data, combined with inflation and trade figures released earlier this month, suggest that a K-shaped growth path is becoming further entrenched in the world’s second-largest economy, with external demand significantly eclipsing domestic demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

LA28 expects to sell 14 million tickets between the Olympics and Paralympics, which would break a sales record, eclipsing the 12 million tickets sold for Paris 2024 Games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

During the 14-year tenure of Ryan Lance, ConocoPhillips reached a market capitalization of $140 billion, eclipsing British oil giant BP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The deal would set a new transfer record for an English player, eclipsing the £116m fee Manchester City agreed with Nottingham Forest for another Three Lions midfielder in Elliot Anderson earlier this summer.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

A lush garden dripped from the ceiling, eclipsing the previous illusion.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi


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