earth
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“It’s like an enormous bathtub sloshing around,” Mark Cane, professor emeritus of earth and climate sciences at Columbia University, told NPR on Monday.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Porto’s also has plans to expand to the happiest place on earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
"They've completely disappeared off the face of the earth."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The trick with thrusters was evocative of what SpaceX has now been doing for years with booster rockets cruising back to earth, touching down in landing pads or being snared by launch towers.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
We held our breath as Granda lifted up the small potatoes, then patted them under the earth again.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Retired wind turbines have room-size generators that in some cases house nearly a ton of rare earths that can be worth close to $100,000, according to one recycler’s estimate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The U.S. is trying to reduce its reliance on China for rare earths, which go into everything from drones to MRI scanners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
As is the case for rare earths, tungsten is another industry critical area where China enjoys a dominant position with some 79 percent of global production.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
As for the rare earths in Myanmar, few experts believe they will ever be of much use to the US.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Adiah was able to take that volume of splendor into her body nearly a hundred years ago, during the Bonding, when it rose to the earths surface in a greater magnitude than usual,” she said.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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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
It will be noticed that the receiving aerial may be arranged in one of two ways—it may be either earthed at the lower end or it may be insulated.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming
It added that it had existing lightning and earthing protection on its biogas tanks.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
“Everybody’s got some funny joke about grounding or earthing or trying to make a joke about being a hippie, or whatever the funny narrative is,” he said.
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
If allowed to grow without earthing up, the vines will yield half a ton of hay to the acre.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
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