How to Use planetary in a Sentence
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Read on for when and how to spot the 2024 planetary parade.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024 -
Saturn holds the overnight planetary spotlight for most of the month.
— Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023 -
This planetary shift, from April 1 through May 13, is like a bad April fool’s joke.
— Essence Lifestyle, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024 -
For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline.
— Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024 -
The relations of human beings—some of them at least—to the rest of planetary life had shifted.
— Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023 -
In the past, Juno has also studied Jupiter's planetary rings.
— Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022 -
This event, while cool and a bit uncommon, is not a true planetary alignment.
— Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023 -
In Season 3, the series moved into the early ‘90s with a race to a new planetary frontier: Mars.
— Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 July 2022 -
Rao explains that the planetary positioning with each other and the sun will block most chances of a clear view.
— Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 28 May 2024 -
Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.
— Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023 -
This is the highest planetary moon-count in our solar system.
— Devika Rao, The Week, 14 Feb. 2023 -
But the question of planetary boundaries is a topic for another time, so back to Unilever.
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023 -
Here’s what to know about the upcoming planetary alignment.
— Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023 -
Studying the dust belts can help unlock more of the secrets behind how planetary systems form.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 May 2023 -
The planetary phenomenon is expected to be arranged in the shape of an arc.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023 -
To see Earth’s future, astronomers turn to a crystal ball filled with alien planetary systems.
— Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023 -
InSight was built to do more than study Mars alone; it was designed to provide new clues to planetary evolution as a whole.
— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Dec. 2022 -
But planetary warming also likely strengthened the force and height of Beryl’s waves.
— Scott Dance, Washington Post, 8 July 2024 -
What are some of the challenges of producing a life narrative about Whitney, who reached fame on a planetary scale?
— Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022 -
The ways that our non-human planetary neighbors adapt may offer clues (or warnings) for us.
— Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022 -
Jack Wisdom, a planetary scientist at MIT who led the latest study, told me.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022 -
Bd wasn’t always thought of as a permanent planetary scourge.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022 -
According to experts, the planetary alignment can be seen best about an hour before the sunrise while looking to the East.
— Ebony Williams, ajc, 13 June 2022 -
This isn’t a cold, dead universe, but rather one brimming with vibrant beings from the nanoscopic to the planetary, existences that we are both made up of and wrapped up in.
— WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Each year the spot changes depending on planetary transits.
— Sebastian Modak, wsj.com, 13 May 2023 -
The findings could help astronomers piece together a time line of how planetary systems are built.
— Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Upbeat planetary connections near the 12th through the 15th, though, indicate that some kind of wish fulfillment is now in store for you.
— Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2022 -
These effects are likely to be felt until a new planetary pattern forms.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024 -
This means it can not only be used at a planetary base, but moved from place to place or even power a rover indefinitely.
— David Szondy, New Atlas, 23 July 2024 -
While some brown dwarfs may form stable planetary systems in their own right, astronomers have observed rogue brown dwarfs – objects that are free floating in space.
— Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
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