sunlike
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a word derived from
sun.
sunnounthe star that is the central body of the earth's solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 25 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
Example Sentences
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Now, scientists reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have designed an LED so slender it’s nearly as thin as paper, yet it emits a cozy, sunlike glow.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2025
The probability of ejections should generally decrease throughout a sunlike star’s life, he says.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
Meanwhile, thanks primarily to NASA’s Kepler space telescope and its discovery that almost all sunlike stars have Earth-like planets, astrobiology has become one of the most fertile fields in science.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2022
“TOI-1233 is an outstanding planetary system with its high number of transiting planets, sunlike host star and its proximity to the solar system,” said Tansu Daylan, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
“And there’s a daisy,” I said, throwing a circlet of the white flowers with their sunlike centers.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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