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earth

[urth] / ɜrθ /


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While its market cap has fallen closer to earth from its post-IPO peak, that has done little to diminish endowments’ returns because of how hugely its valuation soared in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

No, we can thank everyone who, during the course of his 38 years on this earth, politely laughed at one of Gillis’ “Cornell 7‘s Big Book of Punchlines” zingers.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026

The ephemeral piece introduced an approach she would carry into the desert, using intense color to connect the scale of the human body with the immensity of earth and sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Nearby, after scraping away a thin layer of earth, smoke begins to rise.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The rock that formed this side of the gap was not, as she had thought, a part of the cave itself, but merely a tongue of stone that jutted from the earth floor.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The United States also has made sourcing rare earths and improving its energy mix key parts of its foreign policy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The EU is also seeking clearer export-licensing arrangements for rare earths and other materials after China introduced restrictions last year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Chief among Jonas’s callouts is China’s control of magnetic rare earths, which are used to make motors that are key to actuation systems.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Lynas, which has a market value of roughly $9 billion, is the biggest producer of separated rare earths outside China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

A universe in which there were two earths within one sphere of water was no longer an Aristotelian universe.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Like that vegetable, also, they are earthed over to keep them longer fit for consumption; and they afford a continuous supply during the whole year, though it is more abundant in autumn.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

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

He started earthing under the guidance of then-Orioles strength coach Trevor Howell - “before there was much info on it.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

“So, earthing — I don’t actually know that much about earthing,” Paltrow admitted.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2017

After being tied in this manner, the plants are sometimes blanched by earthing, as practised with Celery or Cardoons.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr


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