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sun

[suhn] / sʌn /


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Maritime drones powered by sun and wind that can stay at sea for months will patrol Fiji's waters for drug traffickers and other threats under a deal with Australia announced Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The sun was bright, the mood ebullient and the campus lively ahead of a football game weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Stipe: I love being a part of pop culture — I had my day in the sun, and it feels really good to be in the center of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The subtext of their question is the worry that, just as Icarus soared so high that the sun melted his wings of wax, a market that rises too far is prone to crashing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

After eating we were free for a blessed half hour to stroll about within the Phillips compound in the fresh air and the glorious Brabant sun.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Spare guitar chords give way to a female voice that sounds unpolished but beautiful: “I want to lay with you/ In an open field/ Where yellow flowers are suns of Earth.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

In Nepal's eastern plains, rival political flags depicting blue bells and red suns flutter over tea farms and brick homes -- symbols of a local election campaign shaping landmark nationwide polls.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

The background of the artwork echoes Van Gogh's Starry Night with two suns hanging in the sky that aim to represent the meeting of the two artists and their styles.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025

At maximum intensity, it shone with the light of 10 trillion suns.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025

This has been happening a lot over the past few suns.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

A barred owl hooted and shook its feathers in a sycamore above the creek, and red-bellied cooters sunned themselves on half-submerged logs.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

She settled on a grassy knoll, sunned herself and took a nap.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Perched on a pylon, a pelican sunned its wings.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

At the Charlestown ferry slip he washed in the cold sea water, and because the sun was warm sunned himself as he did what he could to make his shabby clothes presentable.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

On the banks of the Waal, the Dutch branch of the Rhine, swimmers are sunning themselves on a Nijmegen beach that didn't exist before the river level dropped a few months ago.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

On an unseasonably warm afternoon, families flocked to the waterfront, sunning themselves before an azure-blue Mediterranean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

He found the Cynic sunning himself beside his ceramic home and offered to grant the man any favor or fulfill any request.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

It featured a shimmering statue of himself, his close ally Elon Musk enjoying snacks on the beach, and he and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sunning themselves, shirtless.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025

There’ll be swimming and sunning and lots of fun.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder


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