as in globe
the celestial body on which we live our collective responsibility to conserve the planet and its natural resources for future generations

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Recent Examples of planet Jupiter, on the other hand, is the planet of luck, expansion and abundance. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 24 June 2025 And like every human being on the planet, Noel is not a fan of humidity. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2025 Some of Vegas’ iconic casinos, convention centers and hotels — and thousands of households across the city, too — are using the sun to save money and better the planet’s odds at tackling climate change. Max Bearak, New York Times, 24 June 2025 Gamers have some of the fastest fingers on the planet along with lightning-fast reflexes. Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for planet
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Noun
  • Going rogue against the Director’s wishes, Eve turns her quest for vengeance into a rescue when a little girl is kidnapped, and globe trots from a neon New York nightclub to a snowy Austrian village full of murderous locals.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 June 2025
  • Known as one of the last privately held of the original eight big studios, RKO’s iconic tower and globe logo has lit movie and television screens for over 90 years.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 June 2025
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  • Across the technology investing world, investors are scaling their bets on a seductive thesis: Generative AI will transform low-margin service businesses into high-margin software companies.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 June 2025
  • Our copyright statutes were written for a world of photocopiers and cassette tapes, not cloud infrastructure and self-learning algorithms.
    Aron Solomon June 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
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  • Intriguing nose of smoldering earth that is balanced by perfumed notes of violets and warm raspberries with juicy cassis flavors with a firmer structure than 2016 yet there is a graceful quality to the texture with a fierce minerality underneath the delectable fruit.
    Cathrine Todd, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • After Israel bombed Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981 and Syria’s in 2007, Iran decided to spread its nuclear program out over multiple sites, with its crucial elements hidden so deep beneath the earth that not even Israel’s 5,000-pound bunker busters could reach them.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 18 June 2025

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“Planet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planet. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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