The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Andromeda is so close to the Milky Way that their individual haloes may be interacting, bumping into each other as the two galaxies pass in space.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 12, 2023
The glory that now haloes the vineyard valleys of Sonoma and Santa Ynez, Alexander and Edna, the Russian River, and other dales and vales, once belonged to Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Accretion disks are fast-spinning haloes of matter that orbit around black holes at high speeds.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2021
His nose was squat and red, and he had lumpy white, bunched-up eyelids circling his small gray eyes like haloes of bacon fat.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
