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earthly

[urth-lee] / ˈɜrθ li /




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"There seems to be very few things left to cling to," said Viktor Chelin, a photographer coming out of the Chagall exhibition, titled "The Joy of Earthly Gravity", with his wife.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Proponents of space-based data centers believe they’ll allow the AI industry to avoid Earthly headaches, such as securing the energy needed to train AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The contemporary, Earthly versions of the characters, played by Betty Buckley and Barry Primus at the start of their film, bicker on their way to their daughter’s gender reveal party.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

All the recovery operations have been designed to avoid introducing Earthly contamination into the samples which might compromise the coming investigations.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2023

There was also the problem, demonstrated by Rutherford and Soddy early in the century, that Earthly elements hold huge reserves of heat–much too much to allow for the sort of cooling and shrinking Suess suggested.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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