A star
Americannoun
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Why Weil Gotshal’s highest-paid partner jumped to Cravath, shocking big law: A star dealmaker’s defection is revealing two starkly different views of the legal world’s race for scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
A star volleyball setter at Fairfax High, she gave up a University of Arizona scholarship her freshman year after breaking her wrist and finding it “too hard to watch the games and not be involved.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
A star with very few of these elements must have formed before most supernovae occurred, meaning it likely belongs to the earliest generations of stars in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2026
A star quarterback fizzles, a new hire doesn’t work out—and so it’s back to the basics.
From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025
A star like the Sun will end its days, as we have seen, as a red giant and then a white dwarf.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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