firmament
noun
fir·ma·ment
ˈfər-mə-mənt 
1
: the vault or arch of the sky : heavens
Stars twinkled in the firmament.
2
obsolete
: basis
3
: the field or sphere of an interest or activity
the international fashion firmament
She's a rising star in the city's artistic firmament.
Examples of firmament in a Sentence
meteors flashing across the firmament
the stars in the firmament twinkled ever so brightly
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Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Within a few years, virtually nothing was left of it: an achievement no opponents of any comparable creed, world religions -- Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist -- occupying a similar position in the ideological firmament of their civilizations, have ever matched.
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Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
First will come Avengers: Doomsday, though, which will hopefully root the character within the firmament of a single timeline’s history.
—Darren Franich, Vulture, 31 July 2024
Within a few years, virtually nothing was left of it: an achievement no opponents of any comparable creed, world religions -- Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist -- occupying a similar position in the ideological firmament of their civilizations, have ever matched.
—Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
The invisible firmament is sustained not by the defiance of national sovereignty, as Srinivasan recommends, but by its clever manipulation.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Firmament.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/firmament. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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firmament
noun
fir·ma·ment
ˈfər-mə-mənt
: the arch of the sky : heavens
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