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earthy

[ur-thee] / ˈɜr θi /


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I know a sommelier ready to pour some earthy organic reds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The choral writing, in Sardinian dialect, reflects the traditional canto a tenore, giving it an earthy, ritualistic flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

The score took roughly six months to craft and involved the creation of new tools to build the earthy and whimsical sounds, including a cello based on Mongolian string instruments.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

When the beans arrive in Whalsay, they are a light green colour with a subtle, earthy aroma.

From BBC May 31, 2026

The moss smelt rich and deep, and the bluebells were earthy, bitter.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

As Graeme Wood at the Atlantic pointed out, on his blog, Alamariu dispenses with the faux-academic language for an earthier version of the same arguments.

From Salon Oct. 9, 2023

The taste was not the same as it had been the night before: it was earthier and richer, more sustaining and food-like, so to speak.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness.

From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Groce, Helen Mason




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