alien
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James Webb's extraordinary sensitivity has already enabled scientists to investigate alien atmospheres using a method called eclipse mapping.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
She seems less like a criminal than an alien.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
I was an alien who was trying to help somebody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Watters wanted to compress El-Sayed into a caricature, a radical leftist Muslim candidate who could be made alien and threatening to the people watching at home.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Four girls from the back table dashed to the front of the room and presented their app game about an alien landing on Earth.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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It’s such a definitive snapshot of its era, it belongs on one of those records they used to send into outer space to show aliens what life was once like on Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
It was going out to find aliens that thought different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
As I walked out into the desert sunshine, I tried to reconcile the suffering I’d seen online with aliens performing metaphysical microsurgeries throughout my body.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“There are these movies where the aliens are coming, and you see unprecedented levels of cooperation between China and the U.S.,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Instead of destroying London and its suburbs, as the Martians did in the novel, Koch’s aliens would create mayhem in the New York City area.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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