terrestrial
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For businesses like Starlink and Amazon that are seeking to break into the telecom market, they are less expensive than building a terrestrial network from scratch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
"As non-native species and the largest living terrestrial animals, these imported beasts would have required transportation by ship," the academics said.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
"It shows that experimentation with herbivory goes all the way back to the earliest terrestrial tetrapods -- the ancient relatives of all land vertebrates, including us."
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
“Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment,” Musk said in a memo published Monday.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026
Before this new language, clocks could be used to understand the heavens but not terrestrial physics or biology.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing terrestrial
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "T"
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