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eclipse

[ih-klips] / ɪˈklɪps /






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The next total solar eclipse visible from the UK is not due until 2090.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

The eclipse will also be visible, at least in part, across much of Europe, northern North America and north-west Africa.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

A. I’m jealous of anyone who’s building a trip around seeing the solar eclipse in its path of totality.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

If we are merely biological machines—producers, consumers or data points—then superior computational systems threaten to eclipse humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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