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Recent Examples of plutonian The morning of April 1, 1976, Moore announced on a BBC radio station that at 9:47 am, Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, creating the Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect. National Geographic, 31 Mar. 2016 His most recent discoveries, the two tiny Plutonian satellites, were named with the help of a popular vote. Nadia Drake, WIRED, 15 July 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutonian
Adjective
  • Kraus also had a dark backpack on her person.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Lakshmi shared a photo and video of herself at the beach wearing a dark pink bikini while playing in the water.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In women at risk of postpartum depression, changes in peripartum levels of the neurosteroid have been associated with depressive symptoms.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • It is largely characterized by manic episodes (periods of elation and hyperactivity), which are then followed by depressive episodes (sadness and depression).
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Tour can be lonely, even when you’re surrounded by people.
    Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But without the necessary business acumen in their teams, these technology leaders fight lonely battles.
    Alex Brueckmann, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Matters only got more bleak in the sixth, when Rushing fouled a ball off his right shin, smoking a ball right above where his guard ended and immediately going down in pain.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The one constant is the unhappy couple’s bleak surroundings.
    Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Chapple, the late Queen’s beekeeper, went first to Clarence House and then Buckingham Palace to perform his somber duty of telling the bees, a centuries-old custom of informing the bees when their owner has died.
    Elizabeth Bass Parman, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • News voices in the 1970's tended to be somber, accent-less, and almost exclusively male.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Compelling, sure, but more depressing than funny.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The news is depressing, and now the Tribune is ignoring what is, for those who are not sports fans, their leading form of entertainment.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The first fires tore across humble, pioneering patches of plant life no taller than your ankle, as well as burning through rather more astonishing, and truly bizarre, 25-foot columns of fungus that briefly held sway on this desolate world before trees.
    Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Restaurants provided a beacon of hope at a time when the landscape was desolate.
    Beth D'Addono, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead of those memories, survivors are left with the morbid archives of loss.
    Seema Jilani August 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • There are visual gags — case files scattered around jigsaw puzzle pieces, conversations about blood loss interrupted by Sudoku solving — that insist on finding humor in a pair of old folks taking such morbid extracurricular activities so seriously.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Plutonian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutonian. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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