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earthling

[urth-ling] / ˈɜrθ lɪŋ /


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In return, the boy wants little to do with her or any other earthling.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2025

But with little conclusive evidence expected to confirm any intergalactic visitations, it remains to be seen whether any earthling minds will change.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2021

So if we're identifying as an earthling, they might call it something else.

From Salon Nov. 19, 2020

But fear not, dear earthling: Your brain has taken millions of years to get here, and it’s ready for this gaze into the darkness.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2019

But Ino saw him—Ino, Kadmos’ daughter, slim-legged, lovely, once an earthling girl, now in the seas a nereid, Leukothea.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer




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