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earthly

[urth-lee] / ˈɜrθ li /




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The new season will get around to that question, though the alien and earthly plot lines are kept on separate tracks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

“While Peretz was shaping an earthly culture that outrivaled heaven’s in its goodness, others were shaping an earthly culture that outrivaled hell’s in its venom,” she concludes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Scott-Heron’s lunar criticism is not so much concerned with the otherworldly as a space for imagining the earthly impossible, but for assembling earthly sites of decolonization and liberation.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

These earthly dynamics are already part of the risk calculus for markets.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

As soon as they took the body out, Rebeca closed the doors of her house and buried herself alive, covered with a thick crust of disdain that no earthly temptation was ever able to break.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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