as in temporal
having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
a sermon against our obsession with earthly pursuits
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Recent Examples of earthly
Other earthly assets are protected in other ways.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
Though good art work is spiritual maintenance, Molly Odintz reminds us this week to maintain our earthly vessels.
—Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
Chris Leduc / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The next few hundred words will do me, and my profession, no earthly good.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Sátántangó’s desolate landscapes, dominated by mud, wind, and overcast skies, summoned a vision of earthly purgatory unrivaled in almost all of cinema.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
Though good art work is spiritual maintenance, Molly Odintz reminds us this week to maintain our earthly vessels.
—Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
Chris Leduc / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The next few hundred words will do me, and my profession, no earthly good.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Sátántangó’s desolate landscapes, dominated by mud, wind, and overcast skies, summoned a vision of earthly purgatory unrivaled in almost all of cinema.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthly
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For the launch colorway, a vivid graphic may initially bring to mind heat maps with its application of blue, green, yellow and red — but the choice was actually made to invoke a temporal fold, a theoretical concept of bending spacetime to move faster than the speed of light.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
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This temporal displacement has consequences.—
Michael Paarlberg,
The Conversation,
12 Feb. 2026
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Vonn posted a video on Friday night, in a hospital gown with monitors on her chest and the beeps and whirs from her room serving as a sort of mundane soundtrack.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
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Through this lens, Slater’s downfall at DOJ is less an ideological thumping than a mundane drama of personality and personnel fights.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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But fertilizing terrestrial crops with marine material may muddle that work.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
11 Feb. 2026
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Traditionally, cars only connect to terrestrial cell towers.—
Noelle Harff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Both Bloom’s and Brick’s physical devices may also give them an edge with young people who increasingly prefer the analog over the digital.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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There are more overtly sexy moments in Fennell’s movie — the physical intimacy is ratcheted up significantly from the book — but this scene underlines the Brontë’s themes of desire and repression — and the friction between them — that imprinted on the filmmaker as a teen.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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Not quite plant, not quite animal; delicious and wild and rare.—
Callie Sumlin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
15 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, dogs were more likely to respond to animal stimuli than to non-animal stimuli.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 July 2025
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“Earthly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earthly. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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