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Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid.
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Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2026
Earthling has returned to Melrose — this time with a 4,350-square-foot store at 7207 Melrose Avenue.
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
Little earthlings were walking on them.
—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
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Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2026
Earthling has returned to Melrose — this time with a 4,350-square-foot store at 7207 Melrose Avenue.
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
Little earthlings were walking on them.
—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
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“Earthling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earthling. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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earthling
noun
earth·ling
ˈərth-liŋ 
: one who lives on the planet earth
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