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 firmaAt approximately 5 minutes and 20 seconds into the flight, the civilian astronauts returned to their seats for their journey back to terra firma.—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 29 June 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for terra firma
The series pits teams of two contestants, who usually know each other prior, against each other in a race across unfamiliar lands toward a $1 million cash prize.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
Verghese estimated the world requires 593 million hectares of land—which is equivalent to twice the size of India—every year for crop cultivation at current productivity growth rates to meet that challenge.
Since October 2023, Israel's ground and air offensives in Gaza have displaced more than 2 million people and killed more than 68,500 Palestinians, according to the AP.
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Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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