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Little earthlings were walking on them.
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Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Earthlings have listened in to the rover's wheels crunching over the Martian surface and the whirring blades of its no-longer-flying helicopter sidekick, Ingenuity.
—Marcia Dunn The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2025
Earthlings who know where to look can spot it with a telescope in the pre-dawn skies, but most won’t take the trouble.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
As people across the Earth gazed at the sky the past few nights, staring up at the brilliant auroras brought on by recent intense solar storms, Earthlings in orbit had to take some precautions.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 13 Nov. 2025
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Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Earthlings have listened in to the rover's wheels crunching over the Martian surface and the whirring blades of its no-longer-flying helicopter sidekick, Ingenuity.
—Marcia Dunn The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2025
Earthlings who know where to look can spot it with a telescope in the pre-dawn skies, but most won’t take the trouble.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
As people across the Earth gazed at the sky the past few nights, staring up at the brilliant auroras brought on by recent intense solar storms, Earthlings in orbit had to take some precautions.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 13 Nov. 2025
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“Earthling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earthling. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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earthling
noun
earth·ling
ˈərth-liŋ 
: one who lives on the planet earth
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