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the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and air after that nightmarish storm, the sailors were grateful to reach terra firma

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Recent Examples of terra firma And boy did the terrain change while crawling up, along, and down steep unpaved terra firma. Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 Helium-3 is rare on terra firma, but is thought to be abundant in the regolith of the Moon. Paul Ridden may 27, New Atlas, 27 May 2025 Sydney Chandler, daughter of Kyle Chandler, stars as a young woman who must respond when a spacecraft carrying the deadliest being in the galaxy crash-lands on terra firma. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 19 May 2025 That moment when your foot finally hits terra firma after your body’s been through a spin cycle? Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for terra firma
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Noun
  • Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Israel has been engaged in a war with Gaza since a deadly 2023 terrorist attack on Israeli soil, which has seen ballistic missiles and rockets fired at the country.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And yet in restructuring Patagonia to ensure that its profits are used to protect wild lands, Chouinard accomplished something remarkable, turning a for-profit corporation with $1 billion in annual sales into one of the biggest environmental philanthropies in the country.
    David Gelles, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The wildfire has been burning on private land.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Detroit Lions explicitly ban ticket resales for a profit on Ford Field grounds, according to the team’s website.
    Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The New York Mets lost Saturday and Sunday, so no ground was lost to them in the wild-card standings.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The life of these poems expands beyond earth, full of the threats, and lights, here and beyond.
    Rebecca Morgan Frank September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But some of those heroes have come back to earth, while others have been lost for the season to injuries.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Terra firma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terra%20firma. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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