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Recent Examples of planet
Just one of these giant flares could produce a planet's worth of gold, platinum, and uranium.
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Victoria Corless, Space.com, 7 May 2025
The pope touched on a series of woes wreaking havoc on the planet: polluted air, water poverty, toxic waste, industrial pollution, rising sea levels and extreme weather.
—Rachel Ramirez, CNN Money, 27 Apr. 2025
Mercury, the last of the easily visible planets, may also be visible almost directly on the horizon.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Musk has never denied his hard-charging style and believes that his work building electric cars and rockets is crucial for the health of the planet and the continuation of the human species, and that his DOGE work responds to threats of U.S. bankruptcy.
—Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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Victoria Corless, Space.com, 7 May 2025
The pope touched on a series of woes wreaking havoc on the planet: polluted air, water poverty, toxic waste, industrial pollution, rising sea levels and extreme weather.
—Rachel Ramirez, CNN Money, 27 Apr. 2025
Mercury, the last of the easily visible planets, may also be visible almost directly on the horizon.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Musk has never denied his hard-charging style and believes that his work building electric cars and rockets is crucial for the health of the planet and the continuation of the human species, and that his DOGE work responds to threats of U.S. bankruptcy.
—Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for planet
Noun
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Another character is a mascot with a [globe] head who runs out of the plane while on fire.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2025
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Each place are some of the most forward facing programs at each level across the entire globe.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Alvarez has since pivoted back to practicing for the 2025 world championships in Singapore in July, while looking ahead to the 2028 Summer Olympics in L.A.—
Johnny Dodd,
People.com,
10 May 2025
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Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon play the mom and dad of a wealthy family holed up in a posh bunker in a salt mine, George MacKay plays their son who yearns to know about the inhospitable outside world, and Moses Ingram is the stranger who changes everything.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
Noun
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What on earth is next for Luke Littler, other than impending adulthood?—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Was a little girl in Mobile, Alabama, the only person on earth who actually ordered it?—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
2 May 2025
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“Planet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planet. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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