earth
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There is the joy, uncomplicated and total, of watching people who are the best on earth at a hard thing go and do the hard thing.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
While for the first six weeks, he was "very responsive", Ingram said he then "disappeared off the face of the earth" with £14,000.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
"So why on earth would we have not trusted him?"
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Down a quiet residential lane in central Taipei, behind the stalls of a farmers market, I found a shrine to the area’s Taoist earth god.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
He’d preferred cloudy weather and warm, soggy earth.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Global demand for the principal magnet rare earths is less than 100,000 tons, against close to a billion tons of iron ore exported each year from Australia alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
After its rare-earth shock in 2010, Japan helped finance an alternative supply through Australia’s Lynas, now the world’s largest producer of separated rare earths outside China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Disruptions to supply chains, such as for raw materials like rare earths, and to transport routes will continue to add to cost pressures.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Beijing has already tightened export controls on rare earths as part of previous trade negotiations with the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
Mickey," said Callaghan to his fellow-labourer, "let you be off with you and get the potatoes earthed up beyond in the garden.
From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham
It added that it had existing lightning and earthing protection on its biogas tanks.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
San Francisco’s Joc Pederson also counts on constant support from Martin and is committed to breath work and earthing.
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
The blanching will take fully six weeks, during which time there will be but little growth made—hence the necessity for promoting free growth before earthing up.
From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons
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