Hotel reviews give five of me for top service, night skies show billions of me, and fifty of me rest on the American flag. What am I?
A star
The answer relies on identifying a single word with multiple applications across different domains. 'Star' is used as a rating symbol for hotel quality, a glowing astronomical body in space, and a pattern printed on the flag to represent each U.S. state.
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