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Recent Examples of planet
Our planet’s climate crisis is a human crisis.
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Felipe Arango, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
The Global Burst Detection system, a set of specialized payloads hosted on US GPS satellites, has been monitoring the planet for signs of nuclear detonations for over 60 years.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
The nearly 3-minute spot is almost entirely action, as the Sullys, the family central to Cameron's series, engage in battle on Pandora, a planet ruled by different natural laws than Earth.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Life’s got you; the gods and planets ensnare the weak and vulnerable.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 26 Sep. 2025
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Felipe Arango, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
The Global Burst Detection system, a set of specialized payloads hosted on US GPS satellites, has been monitoring the planet for signs of nuclear detonations for over 60 years.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
The nearly 3-minute spot is almost entirely action, as the Sullys, the family central to Cameron's series, engage in battle on Pandora, a planet ruled by different natural laws than Earth.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Life’s got you; the gods and planets ensnare the weak and vulnerable.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for planet
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Running in parallel to the storylines of Piccard and Jones is the global race of the time where many prominent figures, from accomplished aviators to billionaire Richard Branson, were trying to become the first around-the-globe balloonists.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
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This includes simple measures like measuring wet-bulb globe temperatures—as read by a thermometer covered in a damp cloth to measure relative humidity—on their production floors.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Those characters don’t actually exist in either world, but their media does.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Sep. 2025
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Netflix had offered the best of both worlds—access to a nation-wide streaming audience, plus a level of theatrical play commensurate with what the movie would have received from a traditional art-house distributor anyway.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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But as the Department of Defense moved hundreds of men and children through CIA black sites and military bases across the Middle East and South Asia, that type of stateless, legal vacuousness did not exist on this earth’s surface.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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Nearly two-thirds of dysprosium and terbium, two key rare-earth elements, come from northern Myanmar.—
Dan Swift,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Planet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planet. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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