earth
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In the birthplace of Venezuela's oil industry, thick black crude seeps through cracks in the earth, and the air is heavy with the smell of gas, leaving visitors dizzy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Kimi Antonelli says his crash in qualifying at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was "stupid" and "a good way to come back to earth" as he pursues his first world title.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Downsizing: Crusoe made its name building one of the biggest AI supercomputers on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Rare earth elements and other critical minerals are important for electronics, clean-energy technologies, transportation, and national security.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Back into the earth or the sun or wherever it came from.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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President Donald Trump on trade, rare earths and artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Sky-high levies imposed by Washington and matched by Beijing were tentatively relaxed late last year, after a move by China to severely restrict flows of rare earths to the United States.
From Barron's ● 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
Washington is likely to be wary of potential retaliation from Beijing, which processes the majority of the world's rare earths and other critical minerals, crucial in the manufacture of many high-tech products.
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
There is not a weed to be seen anywhere among the rows, all are clean and tidy and well earthed up.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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
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
Proponents of "earthing," or skin-to-skin contact with soil argue that this practice reduces anxiety.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2020
Continue hoeing and earthing up the several crops.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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