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alien

[eyl-yuhn, ey-lee-uhn] / ˈeɪl jən, ˈeɪ li ən /




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Especially not a green, alien orb that levitates him.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

In “We Want to Believe,” Adam Kirsch says “there is no convincing reason to think that Earth has ever been visited by alien spaceships.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 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

Other events of the four-day festivities included an alien invader costume contest, a Martian panic bike race, and an alien attack reenactment.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

He might conjure up a protective bubble, let’s say, to shield a town from hostile aliens.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

In the 1950s, Miller began making figurines — often of dinosaurs and space aliens — using plastic injection molding.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 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

I wished I knew how to make Diego believe me; I wished the aliens had abducted him, too, so we could have watched the stars together.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson




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