alien
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Grace teams up with Rocky, a brilliant alien engineer who looks like a cross between a spider and a rock, and is the size of a Labrador.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Apers believe Bigfoot is just a primate unknown to science while Woo-Woos think Bigfoot is some sort of interdimensional traveller - an alien of sort.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
"Initially, I thought we must have sequenced some alien species. It's very rare for an active gene, which makes a protein, to not have a match."
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
An alien who is stopped in Mexico does not arrive in the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
But Ben stayed close to him, his chest almost against his father’s belly, their sweat commingling and their breaths crossing like two alien winds.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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