as in mundane
having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
we have too many earthbound worries to speculate on the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin
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Recent Examples of earthbound
Both Anduril and Isomorphic are deeply technical companies that have risen at a time when advances in AI have not only rendered the impossible possible, but made moonshots seem earthbound.
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Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
13 May 2026
Read More Williams’s comedy is rooted in a pithy, earthbound philosophy.
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New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Even the runways were earthbound, with moss bearing the strutting weight of models at Hermès and Miu Miu—the latter of which had someone assigned to patching the areas guests stepped on.
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Kevin Huynh,
InStyle,
12 Mar. 2026
If the demand for AI continues to grow, earthbound data centers—and power supplies—may not be able to keep up.
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Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
13 May 2026
Read More Williams’s comedy is rooted in a pithy, earthbound philosophy.
—
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Even the runways were earthbound, with moss bearing the strutting weight of models at Hermès and Miu Miu—the latter of which had someone assigned to patching the areas guests stepped on.
—
Kevin Huynh,
InStyle,
12 Mar. 2026
If the demand for AI continues to grow, earthbound data centers—and power supplies—may not be able to keep up.
—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthbound
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Now, new research may rewrite the definition of these planets that make the solar system look a little bit mundane.
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However, Mamdani wasted no time putting his stamp on the relatively small Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), which is tasked with comparatively mundane administrative duties of issuing shooting permits to film and TV productions.
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Though editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (a Yorgos Lanthimos regular) cuts the film with brisk concision, there’s also a welcome temporal elasticity here — the sense that life can change in the blink of an eye, but also stall for undefined passages.
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The researchers fed this millennium-long data into a computer model to determine how much stress has built up along the faults in that temporal window.
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The terrestrial fueling hardware designed for the Artemis program’s Space Launch System rockets simply cannot function in an orbital environment.
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The remaining planetesimals that did not form into the terrestrial planets are the asteroids of today, left to orbit the inner portion of the solar system.
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During the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, both Martin Luther and John Calvin distinguished spiritual from earthly authority and called for a division of labor between the two.
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People at the most senior levels of the government have no earthly idea what's being discussed inside the White House, inside the Oval Office and the Situation Room.
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Balogun crashed into Bosnia’s Tarik Muharemović, landing his foot on top of Muharemović’s during the physical match.
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Hawaiian Tropic’s zinc oxide formula, a physical UV blocker, brushes on with a matte, translucent finish and leaves no white cast on most skin tones.
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Computer models and other non-animal testing methods still aren’t the best available science, critics contend.
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The charity reports a 70% increase in multi-animal incidents across England and Wales since 2021, defining such cases as those involving 10 or more animals.
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“Earthbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earthbound. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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