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a huge physical or conceptual distance
they have ideas for the new project that are a world away from his own
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Recent Examples of world
Now, a world-altering catastrophe threatens his perfect Order, unleashing mayhem across the planet.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The show, though vastly disparate from Gilligan’s previous works, just might feature callbacks to those iconic worlds beyond Seehorn’s casting and the locale.
—EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The college football world also has it eyes on Hoover, who was selected on the preseason watchlists for multiple awards, including the Davey O’Brien Award, Maxwell Award and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2025
Both feature impressive, highly demanding central performances, goosebump-inducing music courtesy of Oscar winner Daniel Blumberg, and sumptuous world building.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2025
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The show, though vastly disparate from Gilligan’s previous works, just might feature callbacks to those iconic worlds beyond Seehorn’s casting and the locale.
—EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The college football world also has it eyes on Hoover, who was selected on the preseason watchlists for multiple awards, including the Davey O’Brien Award, Maxwell Award and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2025
Both feature impressive, highly demanding central performances, goosebump-inducing music courtesy of Oscar winner Daniel Blumberg, and sumptuous world building.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for world
Noun
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Well, while other planets in our solar system are anything but habitable for humans, Mars gets a decent amount of sunlight, has water sources and is already a planet where humanity has sent robotic rovers to scout the terrain.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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The work reveals her humanity's sassier and unfiltered core.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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For example, swapping rustic barn lights for sleek, glass globes can instantly update a space without much effort.—
Monika Biegler Eyers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Aug. 2025
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As more and more Millennials have started families, many of them are determined to pass down those globe-trotting values—to share the joy of journeying but also to shape their kids into adaptable, savvy people.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There is an exciting season to come on the field but for NFL teams and the investment community the bigger arena will be in their boardrooms with private equity money chasing one of the last sure bets in the media universe.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Jason’s a guy familiar with the DC universe.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Those dark bands are vast dust lanes in the galaxy, blocking your view of stars behind. Can’t see the Milky Way and its dark bands?—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Scientists say the SPHEREx observatory, which became operational in May, will be able to get a wider view of the Milky Way galaxy – identifying objects of scientific interest that telescopes like Hubble and Webb can then study up close.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This includes an opening sequence that begins all the way up in outer space and then slowly hones in on Tucumán, highlighting how a single battle over one tract of land represents, in cultural and historical terms, a battle over the entire planet.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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If anything, the ubiquity of AI only reinforces the importance of protecting our colleges by being some of the most human-centric places on the planet.—
Matthew Scogin,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Golden generations are, almost by nature, generally followed by a less impressive one.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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By learning from nature’s most flexible swimmer, the octopus, researchers hope to overcome these challenges and make underwater machines more capable, adaptable, and sustainable.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Another issue is that the short-term solutions — often called levers — previously deployed to raise money to spend on transfers have not always been accepted by La Liga, who want the club to be run in a more sustainable way.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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Scientists have developed a way to recycle cigarette butts into asphalt, creating roads that are both stronger and more sustainable.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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And earlier this month, President Donald Trump — despite a public and vitriolic falling out with Musk in June — issued an executive order that appears designed to scale back roadblocks and regulatory oversight for private-sector rocket operations, including environmental reviews.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
23 Aug. 2025
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So general public still cannot access the low-cost of sodium-ion batteries at this moment.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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“World.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/world. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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