planetwide
adjective
plan·et·wide
ˈpla-nət-ˈwīd 
: extending throughout or involving an entire planet
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Scrubjay and his partner, a journalist cat named Moose, become embroiled in a crisis dictated by a planetwide housing shortage caused by corporate avarice.
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Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
An international team of 37 experts called the EAT-Lancet Commission has generated the first scientific targets for a nutritionally sound and sustainably produced planetwide diet.
—National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
Deccan Traps was already underway before the impact, and a Science Advances study published in February suggests both the asteroid hit and Deccan Traps activity coincided with a general uptick in planetwide volcanism.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
The new mission couldn’t come at a better time for Mars scientists, with Opportunity incommunicado since planetwide dust storms struck Mars in June.
—Giuliana Viglione, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2018
By the Red List reckoning, the planetwide total for all wild apes amounts to 350,000 individuals, down from premodern figures estimated in the millions.
—Natalie Angier, New York Times, 6 June 2016
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Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
An international team of 37 experts called the EAT-Lancet Commission has generated the first scientific targets for a nutritionally sound and sustainably produced planetwide diet.
—National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
Deccan Traps was already underway before the impact, and a Science Advances study published in February suggests both the asteroid hit and Deccan Traps activity coincided with a general uptick in planetwide volcanism.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
The new mission couldn’t come at a better time for Mars scientists, with Opportunity incommunicado since planetwide dust storms struck Mars in June.
—Giuliana Viglione, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2018
By the Red List reckoning, the planetwide total for all wild apes amounts to 350,000 individuals, down from premodern figures estimated in the millions.
—Natalie Angier, New York Times, 6 June 2016
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“Planetwide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/planetwide. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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