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[urth] / ɜrθ /


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Crows circled the blackened earth looking for seared animals to feast on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

"They've completely disappeared off the face of the earth."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The trick with thrusters was evocative of what SpaceX has now been doing for years with booster rockets cruising back to earth, touching down in landing pads or being snared by launch towers.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

While its market cap has fallen closer to earth from its post-IPO peak, that has done little to diminish endowments’ returns because of how hugely its valuation soared in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Tante Jans believed that our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

As for the rare earths in Myanmar, few experts believe they will ever be of much use to the US.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The EU is also seeking clearer export-licensing arrangements for rare earths and other materials after China introduced restrictions last year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Chief among Jonas’s callouts is China’s control of magnetic rare earths, which are used to make motors that are key to actuation systems.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

That effort has led Western companies to pour money into Brazil, which has the world’s second-largest reserves of rare earths, after China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Adiah was able to take that volume of splendor into her body nearly a hundred years ago, during the Bonding, when it rose to the earths surface in a greater magnitude than usual,” she said.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

They are earthed in this big moment, respectful of the tradition they are now associated with, the tradition of Washington’s special friends being drawn to the nation’s bosom.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2019

Far from having their heads in the clouds, they feel earthed.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2018

It would be easy to get away with a sense of Laura Linney as all sweetness and light – but she is, I think, complicatedly earthed.

From The Guardian ● May 27, 2018

Each of the sonatas is echt-Argerich: totally unpredictable from note to note, they fly like the most charming, sensual kite imaginable, ecstatically free and yet still earthed.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014

We may think of them as two identical lightning conductors, well earthed at the bottom, and supported by non-conducting masts or towers.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming

It added that it had existing lightning and earthing protection on its biogas tanks.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023

San Francisco’s Joc Pederson also counts on constant support from Martin and is committed to breath work and earthing.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

“Everybody’s got some funny joke about grounding or earthing or trying to make a joke about being a hippie, or whatever the funny narrative is,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

“So, earthing — I don’t actually know that much about earthing,” Paltrow admitted.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2017

Vegetable Garden.—Celery will now be in full growth, and will require close attention to earthing up, and during the last part of the month the first lot may be stored away in trenches for winter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various


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