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
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
The study highlights several worst-case scenarios, including spacecraft accidents involving contaminated materials or astronauts who may have been exposed to extraterrestrial environments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
She prefers slumming it at extraterrestrial honky-tonks with suitors who look like armadillo-plated slugs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
“Fascinating. What do you think would be humanity’s reaction if we ever really discovered extraterrestrial life?”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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In the movie, Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a TV meteorologist chosen by extraterrestrials as the human through whom they communicate—“the last person on earth that you’d imagine would be destined for this task,” Blunt says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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
In science-fiction scenarios of first contact with extraterrestrials, humans usually bootstrap a common language with mathematics, demonstrating that we know the digits of pi and so forth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
But the men are entirely uninterested in negotiating with extraterrestrials.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
If the extraterrestrials stay at home, there are at least two ways in which they might find out about us.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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