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Recent Examples of earthbound The opera is too domesticated, earthbound, and companionable to convey that extreme bleakness. Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025 Even earthbound humans could benefit. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 Midas Man gently weeps for Epstein, and rightly so, but leaves his story largely earthbound. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025 Entrepreneurs face similar, albeit more earthbound, temptations. Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for earthbound
Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthbound
Adjective
  • Smiling, eye contact and small talk should be kept to a minimum and be strictly mundane.
    Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2025
  • There will, of course, be speculation that the Microsoft Outlook outage is cyberattack related, but the reality is likely to be more mundane.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Unable to get actual lunar dust, the team bought lunar regolith simulant, a terrestrial material that is synthesized to approximate the chemical, mechanical, mineralogical and other properties of lunar dust.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 July 2025
  • Lunar apatite with terrestrial volatile abundances.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • The film makes the prisoners’ civil-rights violations explicit as these vulnerable characters are dropped into legal and temporal limbo and are denied the right of due process, an ongoing conversation in light of recent deportations.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • But there’s nothing average about MULA, and their new album, ETERNA, blasts these alchemic blends with darkwave, shattering temporal constructs of nostalgia and futurism with a tropi-goth sound for all seasons.
    Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • The moon is not the only thing that can shorten earthly days.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2025
  • For those in the New Apostolic Reformation, these flags symbolize the belief that when all earthly authority fails, people have the right to appeal directly to God’s authority to justify resistance.
    Art Jipson, The Conversation, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Our goal should be to ensure children have access to technology that supports their learning, connection with friends, and fun, while also preventing excessive use that disrupts sleep or physical activity.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 21 July 2025
  • Significant resources were invested in the ball players’ physical and mental development, but credit must also be given to natural abilities and genetics.
    Wayne G. McDonnell, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • In 2022, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 paved the way for alternatives to animal testing, and in December 2023, an NIH advisory committee made similar recommendations to develop non-animal methods.
    Rachel Fobar, Vox, 14 May 2025
  • Rendering is a process that transforms animal by-products, like leftover meat and fats...and yes, chicken feet, into usable materials, such as animal feed, fuel, and other industrial products.
    Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025

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“Earthbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earthbound. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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