plutonic

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However, Page Six reports that the duo’s relationship is plutonic and not romantic.

From Fox News • Aug. 3, 2021

These are known as coarse-grained intrusive, or plutonic, igneous rocks.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

“We’re exactly like a man capable of sustaining a plutonic friendship with an attractive female co-worker — we’re entirely hypothetical.”

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2015

Oliver Sacks writes of his own experience with aluminum chemistry, “Huge energies, plutonic forces, were being unleashed, and I had a thrilling, but precarious sense of being in control—sometimes just.”

From Slate • May 3, 2013

The term, which includes both the plutonic and metamorphic rocks, is substituted for primary, because some members of both these classes, such as granite and gneiss, are posterior to many secondary or fossiliferous rocks.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir