terra
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But still awaiting a connection to the country’s main high-speed train corridor, it can feel like terra incognita, even to Italians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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
This is really quite intriguing as we do not know much about these parts of the genome; our work shows there is benefit in exploring further this genetic terra incognita.'
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Such findings raise the possibility that scientists might be able to create a “package” of charcoal, nutrients, and microfauna that could be used to transform bad tropical soil into terra preta.
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
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
A few steps up from the zaguan was a cosy parlour from which a stair led down to the terras.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
March 17, 1672.——The terras of the Declaration on this point were,——"Scarce a town within their territories that is not filled with abusive pictures."
From The Duel Between France and Germany by Charles Sumner
She is emphatically addressed as a Power, present through all the world,— Caeli subter labentia signa Quae mare navigerum quae terras frugiferentis Concelebras.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
