Canopus
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Astronomy. a first-magnitude star in the constellation Carina: the second brightest star in the heavens.
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an ancient seacoast city in Lower Egypt, 15 miles (24 km) E of Alexandria.
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Al-Neyadi’s astronaut toy, nicknamed Suhail, Arabic for the brilliant star Canopus, also accompanied al-Mansoori on his 2019 space station mission.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
Park your car at the small lot next to Canopus Lake.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
They see it as a set of deliberate choices, and this interpretation can be stoked by the writer offering confident justifications in interviews, as Lessing did for Canopus in Argos.
From Nature ● Oct. 7, 2019
But it was the Canopus in Argus sequence, identified by Lessing as her most important work, that the Nobel committee recognised when describing their author as "the epicist of the female experience".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2013
According to one story, he demanded that the people of the city of Canopus abandon their homes to settle in the new capital.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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