corona

noun

Definition of coronanext
as in aura

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Recent Examples of corona The solar corona is the topmost layer of the sun’s atmosphere. — Damien Pine, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026 This coronagraph blocks out the light of our sun in order to reveal the wispy tendrils of the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2026 There are few things more beautiful than the corona, the sun’s atmosphere, visible only during total solar eclipses like the one that occurred last week over a narrow swath of eastern Greenland, western Iceland and Spain. — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026 At about 82° above the horizon, many observers will need to lie on a blanket or sunbed to comfortably view the solar corona, which will dominate a dark sky. — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for corona
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aura
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  • The Melbourne duo taps into trip-hop’s essential strangeness on its latest album, trading the genre’s boilerplate languor for dejected moods, menacing auras, and slippery, all-consuming bass.
    — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Only one copy will ever legally exist, in a protest against the loss of music’s aura in the age of its digital reproducibility, to paraphrase German philosopher Walter Benjamin.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
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“Corona.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corona. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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