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Venus

[vee-nuhs] / ˈvi nəs /


NOUN
evening star
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NOUN
terrestrial planet
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“So much of the history of art is the anonymity of women, whether she’s a Madonna, Venus or a nude bather,” says art historian Katy Hessel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Morning Star Missions to Venus initiative is developing in situ techniques for studying the chemistry of Venus's clouds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Last week, former world number one Venus Williams and her opponent Sofia Kenin began their first-round match at 12:13am - the latest start in US Open history.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

As tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams prepare to take the court at the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Six months later the agency launched a different rocket to explore the space between Earth and Venus.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Pruitt sees “a fertile space of reflection” between his two Venuses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

The chaos of three time zones and daylight saving couldn’t stop us from deconstructing the lens of art history, which, McCormack argues, wants to confine women to four categories: Venuses, mothers, damsels or monsters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

For now studying Venus up close may be the only route to reliable estimates of which is more common in the cosmos: Earths or Venuses.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2021

Like his sad-eyed Venuses who float just beyond reality, this young man has his mind on the infinite.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2020

"Now the Graces are four and the Venuses two, And ten is the number of Muses; For a Muse and a Grace and a Venus are you,— My dear little Molly Trefusis!"

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Austin Dobson




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