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Recent Examples of planetary Here, the ascendant/1st House is ruled by Virgo, whose natural planetary ruler is Mercury. Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025 However, scientists are seizing the opportunity to watch the comet in real time from beyond Earth using a fleet of ESA and NASA planetary missions already orbiting the inner solar system. Victoria Corless, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2025 With Mars and Mercury (your planetary ruler) both in Scorpio, and the Sun joining them on the 23rd, your sector of communication, learning, local travel, and curiosity is on fire. Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025 Though not explicitly a text on permaculture, Mycelium Running is an excellent book about the power of fungi in agricultural restoration and in both planetary and human health. Catherine Habgood september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for planetary
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  • A little further out, there’s a much more conventional factory site, where giant industrial mixers mass-produce the Firmenich scents.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Those weeks saw students, pensioners, veterans, doctors and teachers stand in freezing temperatures around giant stages, teaching politicians that this was not a crowd to lead, but one to follow.
    Nick Spicer, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • This is important because Kane is 32, Gnabry is 30, and 23-year-old Olise will surely be subject to vast offers to go back to the Premier League in the coming seasons.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The vast majority of people want to be productive members of society and contribute to their communities.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • More pertinently, if Iroegbunam or Gueye tired or did not screen passes correctly (shown below), Rogers and Emiliano Buendia had huge spaces to receive and turn, owing to Everton’s deep centre-backs refusing to step out.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Mason had a huge game against the Bengals in Week 3, racking up 116 yards and two touchdowns on two carries.
    Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • The vortex is a gigantic, circular area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that typically spins over the North Pole (as its name suggests).
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Streaming the first Avatar sequel on Disney+ just doesn’t compare to watching Payakan leap out of the ocean and annihilate the bad guys’ boat (and that one dude’s arm) in glorious 3-D on a gigantic screen.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • The fee is absolutely astronomical.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • Composure personified, underpinned by tremendous work rate.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Uncovering this story, coupled with the recognition that the raw ingredients that led to life on Earth are found in billions of star systems across our galaxy and in trillions of galaxies across the observable Universe, has led to some tremendous questions and some equally tremendous speculations.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • The Apple Valley Model Railroad Museum has an enormous (22 feet by 100 feet) model railroad built in a picturesque Western North Carolina landscape.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Thanks to Google’s enormous war chest, Waymo has had the luxury to spend 16 years raking in data to create more precise self-driving cars, all with the hope of an eventual payoff.
    Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • The year Goldberg-Polin and her family arrived in Israel, the country launched Operation Cast Lead, a massive military operation aimed at halting intensifying Hamas mortar, missile and rocket fire terrorizing southern Israeli communities.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Roan performs on a set that looks like a massive Gothic castle with a drawbridge, parapets and a throne.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Planetary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planetary. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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