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13 total sentences available.
In the late 1940s, George Gamow, a Russian-American physicist, conceived of the Big Bang theory as we know it today. He and his colleagues proposed that if a big bang had occurred, it would have left an afterglow, traces of background radiation that would still be present.
Source: tatoeba (3957955)
When she had gone Mr. Harrison watched her from the window . . . a lithe, girlish shape, tripping lightheartedly across the fields in the sunset afterglow.
Source: tatoeba (7917343)
That the sunset in Egypt is gorgeous, every body knows; but I, for one, was not aware that there is a renewal of beauty, some time after the sun has departed and left all grey. […] everything begins to brighten again in twenty minutes;—the hills are again purple or golden,—the sands orange,—the palms verdant,—the moonlight on the water, a pale green ripple on a lilac surface: and this after-glow continues for ten minutes, when it slowly fades away.
Source: wiktionary
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include afterbirth, afterclap, aftercrop, aftereffect, aftergrowth.
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