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flares

/ flɛəz /

plural noun

  1. informal,  trousers with legs that widen below the knee

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Airbus stock fell in response to news that it announced a “precautionary fleet action” for A320-family jets that could be affected by solar flares.

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Now puzzled, the team began to dig deeper and found that these flares occurred most often when planet HIP 67522b passed in front of the star, when viewed from Earth.

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His sunsum flares, making me dizzy and nauseous with him so close.

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The bursting tumor shoots out flares that spur the immune system’s T cells to kill cancer cells around the body.

For example, in 2017 two massive solar flares fired out from the surface of the Sun disrupted devices such as GPS navigation systems on Earth.

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