as in globe
the celestial body on which we live our collective responsibility to conserve the planet and its natural resources for future generations

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Recent Examples of planet What's happening with the new race to the moon and other planets? Space.com Staff, Space.com, 12 Apr. 2025 The high-profile case could cast light on how US technology subject to export restrictions is funneled around the planet. Bloomberg News, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025 Highlights include 140 sustainable food, product and service vendors along with environmental groups providing information about planet-friendly lifestyles. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025 Listen to this article Communities throughout San Diego County will celebrate Earth Day (April 22) and Arbor Day (April 25) with festivals, cleanups and other events to help take care of the planet, starting in local neighborhoods. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for planet
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  • Collector’s Edition Bonuses A limited Collector’s Edition includes everything in the Premium bundle, plus a custom globe with secret storage, a replica of the Allmaker Relic, an oversized SteelBook, and a collector’s adventure journal.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • While the single-piece globes come in a variety of sizes ranging from 25 to 400 liters, Dhiman, like Fabre, uses the popular 220-liter size (around 60 gallons), which is just slightly smaller than a standard barrel.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2025
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  • Huston could recognize the ways of that brood: her own renowned and eccentric family inhabited that domestic world of privilege, power, infidelity, and intrigue that became Christie’s writerly milieu.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • At this point, my reentry into the curly world felt like learning to walk again.
    Liz Krieger, Allure, 15 Apr. 2025
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  • Life on this earth has felt weird and extra dangerous lately.
    Denise Snodell, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But officials in this second Trump administration, including the President himself, see it as a waste of an enormously valuable resource given that U.S. coal reserves far exceed those of any other nation on earth.
    David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Planet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planet. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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