firmament

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Today our stars inhabit the cultural firmament, in sports and in entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

The pre-Revolutionary era aligned with advances in knowledge of the heavenly bodies, sparked by telescopes and a firmament not-yet-obstructed by skyscrapers and pollution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

As for the food, Gold called some of it “ordinary,” but noted, “Weirdly enough, I don’t care,” noting the restaurant’s place in L.A.’s culinary firmament.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2025

An appeal for new designs produced unusual ideas, including a glass roof, a green "eco-roof", a massive flame instead of a spire, and a spire topped by a vertical laser shooting into the firmament.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

He made motions like tying strings into bundles, then tacked them to the firmament above him in the same way garlands were hung at the festivals in Mologa.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack