as in success
a person or thing that is successful
tragically, a shoulder injury cut short the pitching career of one of baseball's brightest supernovas
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Recent Examples of supernova
And only when some stars had exhausted their fusion fuel did their collapse and explosion in supernovas create heavier elements such as heavy metals.
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Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
Type 1a supernovas are very helpful for scientists, because supernovas tend to explode with roughly the same amount of energy.
—Julian Dossett, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Identifying details in pre-explosion images can help inform the how, when and why supernovas occur.
—Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2025
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Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
Type 1a supernovas are very helpful for scientists, because supernovas tend to explode with roughly the same amount of energy.
—Julian Dossett, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Identifying details in pre-explosion images can help inform the how, when and why supernovas occur.
—Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supernova
Noun
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Ole Miss had success against Root for the second time this season.—
Matt Jones,
Arkansas Online,
24 May 2025
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There is an even spread of success and failure, of ethnicities and inherited dysfunction, along with a predictable checklist of social problems endemic to deprivation.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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For the record, Zimbabwe lost by an innings and 45 runs in the four-day Test against an England team tuning up for a blockbuster, legacy-defining stretch of Test cricket.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Since then, she's continued to reprise her role as Letty in the Fast & Furious franchise and appeared in the Machete films and the blockbuster movie Avatar.—
Lindy Segal,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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He gets paid for hits and this creates hits for him.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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The song became one of Keith's biggest No. 1 hits, Shelton reflected.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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Tom Rinaldi, winner of 17 national Sports Emmy Awards and seven national Edward R. Murrow Awards, will offer feature interviews.—
Bruce Martin,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Four of the past seven Derby winners haven’t run in the Preakness (Sovereignty’s opt out is the first since Rich Strike in 2022).—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
15 May 2025
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“Supernova.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supernova. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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