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halo

noun as in ring of light

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Mr. Lloyd’s buttery tone is set within soaring lines, circular loops and halos of sound from Mr. Sewell’s custom-made electric guitar, and answered by delicate figures from Mr. Moran’s piano.

As a result, the model naturally explains why stars in a galaxy's outer regions move faster than expected without invoking unseen dark matter halos.

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“That level of care is what will create a halo effect for our entire brand.”

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Conditions a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, within dense regions called dark matter halos, appear to have been ideal for forming such stars.

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Whatever costs—in time, money and potentially even personal liberty—these legal actions bring may be more than offset by the halo of martyrdom conferred on the defendant.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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