extraterrestrial
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He’s not a super-scientist or a god or an extraterrestrial or a one-percenter able to develop all manner of nifty crime-fighting gadgetry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
However, the authors note that this choice could also have excluded some genuinely weak extraterrestrial signals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
That’s right around the average success rate for all players over the past two decades, which means that the penalty spot is the one place where Messi goes from extraterrestrial to strangely mortal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
She prefers slumming it at extraterrestrial honky-tonks with suitors who look like armadillo-plated slugs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Because he lived before Darwin, his speculations about extraterrestrial life are innocent of the evolutionary perspective.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The mysteries surrounding Sanxingdui have spawned even more outlandish questions: Do the enormous protruding eyes and enigmatic smiles featured on the figures suggest the ancient people were extraterrestrials?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Although there is speculation about the origins of the civilization—the notion that it might have been established by extraterrestrials remains widespread in China—experts’ understanding of how its people lived has grown, particularly after Ran’s discoveries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Inside its sci-fi trappings — space travel, crazy technology, oodles of extraterrestrials — Pixar’s “Elio” is the story of an outsider kid who finds a new family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
In a follow-up post on Instagram, Obama, who served as US president between 2009-17, clarified: "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Readick played and replayed the recording until he was able to imitate the same reaction when his character sees the extraterrestrials emerge from their spaceship.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
Vocabulary lists containing extraterrestrial
Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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Earth and the Solar System - Middle School
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