as in globe
the celestial body on which we live our collective responsibility to conserve the planet and its natural resources for future generations

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Recent Examples of planet The global shipping industry is responsible for around 3% of global planet-heating pollution annually, a figure that could rise to 17% by 2050 if no action is taken, according to a 2018 European Parliament analysis. Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025 Much of Crumbl’s dizzying success can be credited not just to the planet’s unifying love of glucose, but to a remarkably savvy social media strategy. Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025 Now is the time to make bold commitments to protect our planet and care for people. Tarciana Medeiros, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025 Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are being discovered across the planet. Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for planet
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Noun
  • Zimmer returns to Fire Country this season as Renée Hoffman, a globe-trotting lawyer and Vince's high school girlfriend.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The final women’s window displays a foulard created for Bergdorf Goodman on a green backdrop with a thistle flower motif surrounded by globes indicating where Loro Piana fibers are found.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • The shock over Tiger Woods' latest back surgery has not left the golf world.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
  • What does Manny’s story and world look like this season without Gabriela there?
    Alamin Yohannes, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • Among seismic sports television changes during the past 50 years, the NBA’s new media rights deal, one that officially begins this week, isn’t quite as earth-shaking as CBS losing the NFL to Fox in 1994 or ABC losing Monday Night Football in 2005.
    Barry Jackson Updated October 21, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Similar to finding that planets do not orbit the earth, the search for economics anomalies requires searching for empirical facts that cannot (easily) be explained using the standard economic model where everyone chooses by optimizing and makes no systematic mistakes.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Planet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planet. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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