earth
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"Which other world champion on my level - a high-level athlete on earth - would do a performance in front of 1,500 in Pattaya?"
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Pacific island had been the self-proclaimed last nation on earth without a football team, but Nauru have also been claiming this tag.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Optical-networking stocks have come back down to earth in recent months, and a Barclays analyst thinks that Lumentum Holdings shares now look attractive in the wake of their selloff.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“The outpouring of love I received helped me to realize that her short time on this earth left an impact that could never be forgotten.”
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
We held our breath as Granda lifted up the small potatoes, then patted them under the earth again.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Moraitis has been CEO of Serra Verde since January 2023 and helped build the miner into what the company described as the only large-scale producer of the four critical rare earths outside of Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The company later disclosed that it had entered a 15-year deal to sell its magnetic rare earths to a special-purpose vehicle, capitalized in part by the U.S. government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The European Commission, which leads EU trade policy, is working on an instrument that would force businesses to diversify their suppliers in critical sectors like chips and rare earths.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
It has also squeezed exports of heavy rare earths to Japan, critical minerals that are essential for manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Bruno was right—the universe was infinite and there were other earths; and Kepler, who had always insisted that the sun and the Earth were unique, was plain wrong.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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They are earthed in this big moment, respectful of the tradition they are now associated with, the tradition of Washington’s special friends being drawn to the nation’s bosom.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2019
Far from having their heads in the clouds, they feel earthed.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2018
It would be easy to get away with a sense of Laura Linney as all sweetness and light – but she is, I think, complicatedly earthed.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2018
Each of the sonatas is echt-Argerich: totally unpredictable from note to note, they fly like the most charming, sensual kite imaginable, ecstatically free and yet still earthed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014
When the two first leaves are fully developed the plants to be earthed up as high as the cotyledons.
From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by Keane, William
It added that it had existing lightning and earthing protection on its biogas tanks.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
San Francisco’s Joc Pederson also counts on constant support from Martin and is committed to breath work and earthing.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
“Everybody’s got some funny joke about grounding or earthing or trying to make a joke about being a hippie, or whatever the funny narrative is,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Proponents of "earthing," or skin-to-skin contact with soil argue that this practice reduces anxiety.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2020
Commence by carefully earthing up the rows as soon as the plants are about three inches high.
From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons
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