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extraterrestrial

[ek-struh-tuh-res-tree-uhl] / ˌɛk strə təˈrɛs tri əl /


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The hunt for extraterrestrial life enters a new frontier.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

He’s not a super-scientist or a god or an extraterrestrial or a one-percenter able to develop all manner of nifty crime-fighting gadgetry.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

That’s right around the average success rate for all players over the past two decades, which means that the penalty spot is the one place where Messi goes from extraterrestrial to strangely mortal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

She prefers slumming it at extraterrestrial honky-tonks with suitors who look like armadillo-plated slugs.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

I suppose that my extraterrestrial Visitor night puzzle over my records in much the same way, on first listening.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The mysteries surrounding Sanxingdui have spawned even more outlandish questions: Do the enormous protruding eyes and enigmatic smiles featured on the figures suggest the ancient people were extraterrestrials?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Inside its sci-fi trappings — space travel, crazy technology, oodles of extraterrestrials — Pixar’s “Elio” is the story of an outsider kid who finds a new family.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

In a follow-up post on Instagram, Obama, who served as US president between 2009-17, clarified: "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"

From BBC Feb. 19, 2026

In science-fiction scenarios of first contact with extraterrestrials, humans usually bootstrap a common language with mathematics, demonstrating that we know the digits of pi and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

Yet many listeners believed that their favorite radio personalities had been killed and the Buffalo area taken over by extraterrestrials.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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