alien
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Especially not a green, alien orb that levitates him.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
The rediscovery of Homer, alien obsessions, a novel of the Roman Republic’s fall and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The Reapers look awesome through cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt’s night-vision binoculars that make their skin glow an alien shade of green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Another woman is “presumed” a citizen, the AG’s office says, but was “subject to a complicated international adoption as an infant many decades ago,” and “her federal alien file is both missing and irreplicable.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Finally, he asks, “What is that? It looks like an alien helmet.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
He was instrumental in doing the stop-motion miniature chess scene in “Star Wars: A New Hope,” bringing the Imperial Walkers to life and creating aliens like Jabba the Hutt and tauntauns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
The ban extends to fugitives, undocumented aliens, people dishonorably discharged from the military and people convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A Japanese journalist coined the term cosplay -- combining costume and play -- in 1984 after seeing people dressed as monsters and aliens at a sci-fi convention in Los Angeles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Suggested causes include acoustic pollution from human activity, naturally occurring environmental sounds and conspiracy theories involving the CIA or even aliens.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Such strange creatures, all of them—they looked like aliens, almost.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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