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[urth] / ɜrθ /


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Once the rare earth concentrate has been extracted from the wastewater, the individual elements must then be separated out and processed.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

The Premier League, the most popular domestic championship on earth, returned on Friday night to kick off 38 rounds of chaos that won’t be settled until next May.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

Some of the more experienced miners are deep in holes excavating the earth and drilling at rocks with the same goal.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Even pottery that enters the ground whole often cracks over the centuries as soil pressure, farming, construction, and other disturbances shift the earth around it.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

He was in the dripping, reeking bowels of the earth.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Washington is likely to be wary of potential retaliation from Beijing, which processes the majority of the world's rare earths and other critical minerals, crucial in the manufacture of many high-tech products.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Beijing has already tightened export controls on rare earths as part of previous trade negotiations with the US.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

The same approach allowed it to dominate rare earths, gallium, germanium and graphite—keeping prices low enough to push Western producers out of the market.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

"With this operation, we achieve two purposes: one, environment cleanup, and second, recover rare earths as a valuable byproduct," said Lance Lin, director of the WVU Rare Earth Elements Initiative.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 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

They are sown in shallow trenches; in spring they are earthed up very slightly, but still with a little trench at the base of the plants.

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll

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

He started earthing under the guidance of then-Orioles strength coach Trevor Howell - “before there was much info on it.”

From Washington Times Jul. 13, 2023

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

From Salon Jun. 6, 2017

In seven to nine days after spawning, the beds are ready for earthing over.

From Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure by William Falconer




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