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Recent Examples of planet
Global temperature records could be challenged again So far, 2024 ranked as the planet’s warmest year on record, following the last El Nino event, which emerged in mid-2023 and persisted through spring 2024, according to NOAA.
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Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 May 2026
Caused by sunlight-scattering dust in the Martian atmosphere, that unexpected brilliance seems to be planet-wide—save for a region near the world’s north pole.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
The team operating it has already released an image of the planet from about 3 million miles away.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 May 2026
The water still trapped within the comet likely formed long before its host star, but 3I/ATLAS was born afterward from a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust that swirled around the star — the same disk where planets form, Salazar Manzano said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
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Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 May 2026
Caused by sunlight-scattering dust in the Martian atmosphere, that unexpected brilliance seems to be planet-wide—save for a region near the world’s north pole.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
The team operating it has already released an image of the planet from about 3 million miles away.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 May 2026
The water still trapped within the comet likely formed long before its host star, but 3I/ATLAS was born afterward from a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust that swirled around the star — the same disk where planets form, Salazar Manzano said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for planet
Noun
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Thank you to my fellow globe-trotting futurist Natalie Monbiot for the press pass.—
Jesse Kirshbaum,
SPIN,
15 May 2026
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Santiago has world-class museums, vibrant parks and plazas, bohemian barrios, buzzing nightlife, and a growing food scene to match those globe-conquering wines.—
Mark Johanson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 May 2026
Noun
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Imagine an alternate world in which Nixon had instead been free to destroy those records.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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There’s a world where that actually helps reduce pressure and expectations on the filmmakers, which is often the challenge with indies.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
13 May 2026
Noun
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There is perhaps no other city on earth that has been vaporized, invaded, flattened, overrun (by criminals, aliens, drugs, frogs, chemicals) more on film than Los Angeles.—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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To take off from or land at Paro, pilots have to thread the needle through some of the highest mountains on earth—with no radar guidance and a final turn on approach that happens just 30 seconds before touchdown.—
Chris Dong,
Travel + Leisure,
12 May 2026
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“Planet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planet. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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