Lyra
Americannoun
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Lyrae
genitive
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Astronomy. the Lyre, a northern constellation between Cygnus and Hercules, containing the bright star Vega.
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a female given name.
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(lowercase) glockenspiel.
noun
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Lyra was a journalist and campaigner from Belfast who had only recently moved to Derry.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Three men accused of murdering journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland more than seven years ago have been found not guilty.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Three men were on Friday found not guilty of murdering Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee six years ago, in a high-profile killing that attracted global attention.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Some companies, like Lyra Health, only offer their AI chatbots to patients who are concurrently in therapy on their platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
When Kermit was coming down a hill, he ran into Rondon and Lyra.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
It also sits relatively far from the center of the Milky Way and contains an extraordinary population of RR Lyrae variable stars.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
In this sense, RR Lyrae stars are a little bit like standard light bulbs and can also be used to obtain distances, particularly within our Galaxy.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Recent work, for example, has used RR Lyrae stars to identify dim companion galaxies to our own Milky Way out at distances of 300,000 light-years.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The researchers looked at a class of stars called RR Lyrae that are known for their variability.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2015
I went upstairs around 10, did some homework in my room, and looked at a couple stars with my telescope—Vega and Epsilon Lyrae.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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