alien
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I’m happy because if I had had even an inkling she was the Manhunter, I might have brought an alien touch to the scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
As one leading technologist put it, “I feel like I’m talking to a highly intelligent alien being.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Especially not a green, alien orb that levitates him.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
My packet of worksheets, my impending academic doom, the hospital, Dr. Katz, even Mom, it’s not that they feel far away; it’s that they feel like a foreign language, an alien planet.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
He was instrumental in doing the stop-motion miniature chess scene in “Star Wars: A New Hope,” bringing the Imperial Walkers to life and creating aliens like Jabba the Hutt and tauntauns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
By examining the belief in aliens, he writes, we “can help clarify some of the primary social and spiritual quandaries of our time, even—or especially—if UFOs don’t actually exist.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
A Japanese journalist coined the term cosplay -- combining costume and play -- in 1984 after seeing people dressed as monsters and aliens at a sci-fi convention in Los Angeles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
When we make first contact with the aliens in other universes and jabber at them in our local code, they cannot understand us without a sci-fi Universal Translator.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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