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Mercury

[mur-kyuh-ree] / ˈmɜr kjə ri /


NOUN
terrestrial planet
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Nearby, the shiny silver Project Mercury test training suits were specially created to fit each individual astronaut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Raye has won the 2026 Mercury Prize for her show-stopping second album This Music May Contain Hope.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Elsewhere British singer Raye is pictured singing on stage as a "golden wonder" following her Mercury Prize win.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

It has a “neutral” call on Mercury NZ and raises its price target by 2%, to NZ$7.12/share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Lovelace also designed the tests that the Mercury 7 astronauts had gone through at his Albuquerque clinic.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson


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