terra
Example Sentences
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The 30-year-old man driving a gray minivan was speeding while traveling westbound on Terra Bella Street at about 9:35pm, when he ran a red light at the intersection of Woodman Avenue and collided with a blue mustang and a tan Civic that were both traveling southbound, according to police.
From Los Angeles Times
In this forbidding climate, Genly Ai, an emissary from Terra, another planet, struggles to understand a place where gender roles, modes of communication and beliefs are entirely different from those at home.
Startup founder and Stanford alumnus John Mern is taking a similar approach with Terra AI, a startup using AI to help explorers determine when and where to drill by giving them better data on what’s under the earth and how profitable it would be to drill.
This is just me talking, but when the eye-to-brain signal immediately declares That is a catch but the explanation of why it wasn’t a catch is so long it requires reading glasses and a bookmark…I think we’re in danger of losing our connection to terra firma.
Terra firma brings other surprises: a bracing wind that has me grabbing for a jacket — a piece of clothing all but ignored in other parts of Saudi Arabia.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
