earth
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Neither China nor Russia has shown regard for international norms or for trying to avoid adding to debris in earth orbit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
As former Goldman Sachs commodity strategist Jeff Currie pointed out a month ago, “Nobody on planet earth consumes crude oil. Refineries do. Everyone else consumes gasoline and diesel.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
They’re all gone now, long extinct just like the saber-toothed cats and dire wolves that walked the earth with them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
There is the joy, uncomplicated and total, of watching people who are the best on earth at a hard thing go and do the hard thing.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
At first he has his head down, pawing the earth, so that only the starry gleam of his shoulder can be seen.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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After its rare-earth shock in 2010, Japan helped finance an alternative supply through Australia’s Lynas, now the world’s largest producer of separated rare earths outside China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Global demand for the principal magnet rare earths is less than 100,000 tons, against close to a billion tons of iron ore exported each year from Australia alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Disruptions to supply chains, such as for raw materials like rare earths, and to transport routes will continue to add to cost pressures.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Washington is likely to be wary of potential retaliation from Beijing, which processes the majority of the world's rare earths and other critical minerals, crucial in the manufacture of many high-tech products.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Adiah was able to take that volume of splendor into her body nearly a hundred years ago, during the Bonding, when it rose to the earths surface in a greater magnitude than usual,” she said.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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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
Kept clean, and earthed up a little, and the bugs kept off while the plants are small, they will produce an abundance of fruit.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
It added that it had existing lightning and earthing protection on its biogas tanks.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
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
Proponents of "earthing," or skin-to-skin contact with soil argue that this practice reduces anxiety.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2020
In such cases it is an excellent plan to dust the sets freely with sulphur at the time of planting and to repeat the application before earthing up.
From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons
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