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[urth] / ɜrθ /


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“It’s like an enormous bathtub sloshing around,” Mark Cane, professor emeritus of earth and climate sciences at Columbia University, told NPR on Monday.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

It means a traipsing into NFL-land, where you look at your TV in mid-January and wonder what on God’s green earth the Carolina Panthers are doing on the field.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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

In the middle of the clearing and nowhere else on earth.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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 United States also has made sourcing rare earths and improving its energy mix key parts of its foreign policy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 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

Bruno was right—the universe was infinite and there were other earths; and Kepler, who had always insisted that the sun and the Earth were unique, was plain wrong.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Accordingly, if one side of the double loop is earthed, we then have an arrangement which radiates waves.

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

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

“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

The manure is firmly packed in upon the spawn, the surface left smooth and even and without being further disturbed until earthing time.

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


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