stratosphere
noun
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The stratosphere (strato- simply means "layer" or "level") lies above the earth's weather and mostly changes very little. It contains the ozone layer, which shields us from the sun's ultraviolet radiation except where it's been harmed by manmade chemicals. The levels of the atmosphere are marked particularly by their temperatures; stratospheric temperatures rise only to around 32°—very moderate considering that temperatures in the troposphere below may descend to about -70° and those in the ionosphere above may rise to 1000°.
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Eric Duhatschek, The Athletic, 5 Apr. 2024
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet vaults into the emotional stratosphere in Act Three and stays there till its finish.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
Joel Embiid, the Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic and the Phoenix Suns’ Bradley Beal now join him in that stratosphere.
—Brett Knight, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
The best of Wesselmann, the show seems to imply, ought to be up in that stratosphere, too—or at least closer to it than the current auction record of $10.7 million, set at Sotheby’s New York in 2008.
—Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Stratosphere.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stratosphere. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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