terra
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That topic already is broad enough, but once the Fed starts down that road, it quickly will find itself in intellectual terra incognita.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
But the fear was that it would happen in space, when you’re 180 miles from terra firma and the nearest fire station.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
They came in a small range of colors: sand, terra cotta, chestnut.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
That would only have been possible on terra firma, they say.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
Despite the charcoal, terra preta is not a by-product of slash-and- burn agriculture.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He began again, starting with Juno’s unforgiving cruelty, sweeping into the cave of winds, and finally breaking into the storm: ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The version of Pipino, "ad Lucis terras finitimas deferunt," points to the true reading;—Carte is an error for Clarté.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
March 17, 1672.——The terras of the Declaration on this point were,——"Scarce a town within their territories that is not filled with abusive pictures."
From The Duel Between France and Germany by Charles Sumner
“I have preserved it,” he said, “for I am pleased with the gracious terras in which it is couched.”
From The Trapper's Son by William Henry Giles Kingston
Many times a day have I repeated with tears the verse: Heu, fuge crudeles terras, fuge littus avarum!
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
