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earthy

[ur-thee] / ˈɜr θi /


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Other dishes have relied on the earthy sweetness of sunchokes and cassava.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

These days, wellness products that used to be branded in spiritual and soft, earthy, non-Western ways during the Goop era are now promoted by men in tight black T-shirts talking about optimization and hard science.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2026

So a new earthy yellow hue was mixed and dubbed “Lauenstein Yellow.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The choral writing, in Sardinian dialect, reflects the traditional canto a tenore, giving it an earthy, ritualistic flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Yes, it was a little bit earthy, but that was all.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Fans of her earthier material won't be disappointed, though.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Kombuchas made from black tea and pu-erh, meanwhile, displayed richer, earthier aromas with more pronounced fermentation characteristics.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

But for those of us with slightly earthier tastes, she remains the indelible Barbara Kean of the bygone, Batman-adjacent “Gotham.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 10, 2026

Black beans bring a deeper, earthier tone; pintos are soft and nutty, more traditional.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2025

“The fire’s lit, but the cauldron’s empty,” as Ivor Dillonsby put it to me, or, in Enid Smeek’s slightly earthier phrase, “She’s nutty as squirrel poo.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Where it runs into some turbulence — and despite the best efforts of everyone involved in director Eric Schaeffer’s accomplished production, it eventually does — is in its earthiest realm.

From Washington Post

Throughout, imbuing the earthiest, coarsest things with the highest spiritual ardor, run the passionate preachings of the "Apostles."

From Time Magazine Archive

Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew full well that that peaceful interim would be used by Jake to raise earthworks of the earthiest kind, and to train his guns with deadly accuracy upon his enemy.

From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum




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