terra
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That topic already is broad enough, but once the Fed starts down that road, it quickly will find itself in intellectual terra incognita.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The fact that scientists are finding intact biochar in the Amazon’s ancient terra preta suggests that it’s happening.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025
They came in a small range of colors: sand, terra cotta, chestnut.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
That would only have been possible on terra firma, they say.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
Woods has guessed that terra preta might represent as much as to percent of the Amazon basin, an area the size of France.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He began again, starting with Juno’s unforgiving cruelty, sweeping into the cave of winds, and finally breaking into the storm: ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
At the termination of the rainy season in March, it was generally about two-thirds full, supplied from the flat roof or terras during the rainy season.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
Such landslides, terras 230 cahidas, can be rarely foreseen, and are a grave danger to craft when they come close in to rest at night.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
Science says that every thing is a lie, and would reduce every thing to figures and lines, not only maria ac terras, where we are, but coelumque profundum, where God is.
From Dona Perfecta by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
The version of Pipino, "ad Lucis terras finitimas deferunt," points to the true reading;—Carte is an error for Clarté.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
