star system
Example Sentences
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London would be more suited to either a percentage or flat fee system, the authors suggested, as Britain "lacks a statutory national 'star' system for hotels present in France and Italy".
From BBC
It was the first time astronomers had seen an interstellar object pass through our solar system — meaning something that originated in another star system.
From Salon
The closest is approximately 1,000 light-years away in the Gamma Velorum star system, which is visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
From Scientific American
High and flinty, with a bone-deep coal-country drawl that refused to fade even as she ascended to a queenly position in the Nashville star system, her singing sliced through polished arrangements like a sharpened blade.
From Los Angeles Times
If a super-Earth is ejected from its star system and has a dense atmosphere and watery surface, it could sustain life for tens of billions of years, far longer than life on Earth could persist before the Sun dies.
From Salon
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