How to Use Southern Cross in a Sentence
Southern Cross
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The logo featured a black background with the Southern Cross constellation in white stars.
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Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Jan. 2026
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Bright stars Sirius and Canopus blaze low in the south, with the Southern Cross rising beneath.
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Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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Shane van Gisbergen has spent most of his 37 years living under the Southern Cross.
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Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
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The Milky Way is visible to the naked eye, along with the Southern Cross and indigenous constellations in the shape of baby lambs and foxes with pointy ears.
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Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
16 Oct. 2025
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The camp offers outdoor beds with cozy and upscale sleeping bags, known as swags, for a night spent beneath the Southern Cross and a morning watching nearby Uluru turn sherbet orange.
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Stephanie Vermillion,
Vogue,
12 Nov. 2025
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In the tale, an old, giant rhea ran so powerfully its steps left imprints in the sky, creating the constellation Choiols — known in the West as the Southern Cross.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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The Southern Cross was specifically chosen for its association with the Southern Hemisphere.
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Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Jan. 2026
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Flow State Researcher Eric Brymer, from Australia’s Southern Cross University, tells me this wasn’t a cognitive leap.
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Dan Rubinstein,
Outside,
5 Nov. 2025
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Seven West owns Seven Network, one of Australia’s biggest commercial networks, while Southern Cross is the largest radio broadcaster in the country.
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Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the hook of the scorpion tail signifies the Scorpius constellation and the ubiquitous Southern Cross—seen on flags and emblems around the Southern Hemisphere—shines bright.
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Chloe Sachdev,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Apr. 2025
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Stay at Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa on Grand Cayman or Southern Cross Club on Little Cayman and get ready for a tropical take on girl time.
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Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
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Observers from the latitude of Santiago, Chile, Cape Town, or Melbourne, Australia will see the Southern Cross low in the south-southwest, with its brightest star Acrux just 13 degrees above the horizon.
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Jesse Emspak,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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In a new study led by Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia, researchers analyzed teeth belonging to ancient primates and early humans and discovered that lead exposure has been occurring for at least two million years.
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New Atlas,
17 Oct. 2025
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Along the southern Milky Way, from Orion to Scorpius, there are several other lustrous groupings, of which the Southern Cross (Crux) and the Centaur (Centaurus) each contain two stars of the first magnitude, just like Orion.
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Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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This is because back in the mid-80s, Macross, Southern Cross, and MOSPEADA were hacked together to create Robotech, which is owned by Harmony Gold.
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Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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Up to 300 full-time employees have been laid off at Seven Network's owner Southern Cross Media Group, per a June 11 release obtained by PEOPLE.
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Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
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Conceived by Chesterman Design and Architecture in collaboration with artist-designer James McGrath, Southern Cross reinterprets tropical modernism through courtyards, verandas, and floating planes intended to dissolve the line between indoors and out.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
28 Aug. 2025
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Australia’s Seven West & Southern Cross Merge Australian companies Seven West Media and Southern Cross Media Group have agreed an AU$416M ($275M) merger.
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Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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