earthy
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Two outstanding works, “Ranchos Church No. 1” and “Ranchos Church, No. II, NM,” both from 1929, are soft in line and earthy in color.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Before the vinegar, it tasted good — but a little too sweet and a little too earthy.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The star attraction are Shetland's native sheep and the earthy shades of cream, brown and black of their wool.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
She swam alongside the rope that was anchored to the bottom and into a shipwreck, covered in earthy greens.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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As if something earthier and stronger had been harvested in the fields with all those valuable grapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Fans of her earthier material won't be disappointed, though.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Kombuchas made from black tea and pu-erh, meanwhile, displayed richer, earthier aromas with more pronounced fermentation characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
But for those of us with slightly earthier tastes, she remains the indelible Barbara Kean of the bygone, Batman-adjacent “Gotham.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
“The fire’s lit, but the cauldron’s empty,” as Ivor Dillonsby put it to me, or, in Enid Smeek’s slightly earthier phrase, “She’s nutty as squirrel poo.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Where it runs into some turbulence — and despite the best efforts of everyone involved in director Eric Schaeffer’s accomplished production, it eventually does — is in its earthiest realm.
From Washington Post
And the high-resolution satellite images that became commercially available last year will move the earthiest of endeavors into cyberspace.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On and on John babbles in some of the earthiest colloquialisms ever to come out of Goldwater country.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Helen Mason Groce
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