starry
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Not to outshine Shohei Ohtani and his starry pals, not to move merch off the field or do huge numbers on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Open’s starry mixed doubles event, but that’s the hope, with the journalist Ben Rothenberg reporting Alcaraz has been planning to compete with none other than Serena Williams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
D’Angelo’s children introduced the medley, which was set against a backdrop of floor to ceiling windows looking out on a starry sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The legroom, soft carpet and starry ceiling—a feature borrowed from Rolls-Royce—gave me that pampered feeling luxury carmakers strive for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Thousands of space vehicles of every make and model were crawling through the starry blackness around me, everything from single-seater craft to giant moon-sized freighters.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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The unwritten rules: the bigger, the louder, the splashier, the starrier, the better.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett and film editor Carol Littleton will collect honorary Oscar statuettes at a private, untelevised dinner Tuesday night in Los Angeles that has often been even starrier than the Oscars themselves.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
The “Star Wars” universe just got even starrier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Sundance will disclose picks for its starrier Premieres section on Monday.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2016
And the song softened, even as heaven by night Softens, from sunnier down to starrier light, And with its moonbright breath Blessed life for death's sake, and for life's sake death.
From Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Stripped of their starriest player and many trusted associates, they’ve morphed into a tighter outfit that plays unselfish team basketball and relies on every player to shoot, rebound and defend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
Brazilian director Karim Ainouz's surreal satire "Rosebush Pruning" premiered on Saturday at the Berlin Film Festival with one of the programme's starriest casts portraying an outrageously spoiled and dysfunctional family descending into chaos.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
In its way the Super Bowl of Commercials is as much a competition as the game itself, as agencies vie for the biggest, starriest, funniest, most memorable, most meme-able, most flagrantly expensive spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
The starriest of the World Cup star teams, Brazil, finally had debuted at this 22nd men’s World Cup, the 22nd for which Brazil has qualified.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2022
For in the starriest night no sign of the extreme Polar constellations was visible; though often we scanned the northern and southern horizon in search of them.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville