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

If magma cools slowly, deep within the crust, the resulting rock is called intrusive or plutonic.

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

Hence at the abrupt terminations of some of the chains in the district of Saffragam, plutonic rocks are seen mingled with the dislocated gneiss.

From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir