earth
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"They've completely disappeared off the face of the earth."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Crows circled the blackened earth looking for seared animals to feast on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The trick with thrusters was evocative of what SpaceX has now been doing for years with booster rockets cruising back to earth, touching down in landing pads or being snared by launch towers.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 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
Blinding flashes of light and loud cracks that seem to shake the earth.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Lula wants Brazil—home to the world’s second-largest rare-earth reserves after China—to not just export raw ore, but rather build processing plants that can separate rare earths, produce metals and eventually manufacture magnets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Some more recent models can contain nearly a ton of rare earths, worth close to $100,000, Paladin estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
As for the rare earths in Myanmar, few experts believe they will ever be of much use to the US.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 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
Bruno was right—the universe was infinite and there were other earths; and Kepler, who had always insisted that the sun and the Earth were unique, was plain wrong.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
The plants are cleared when the leaves decay, and the ground is kept level instead of being earthed up.
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
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
Proponents of "earthing," or skin-to-skin contact with soil argue that this practice reduces anxiety.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2020
They become white and luxurious by tying up, by earthing up, by any contrivance which has kept the sun at bay.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
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