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having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
a sermon against our obsession with earthly pursuits
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Recent Examples of earthly
In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.
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Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026
But a battlefield promotion to Ayatollah was arranged, blending faith with politics in an exercise that critics said sullied both even before Khamenei reinforced his position by earthly means, elevating the IRGC.
—Karl Vick, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
The monkey and the lion have become Chinese emperors, Buddha’s earthly servants.
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Itsstark, alien landscape — with striking production design by the legendary Yoshirô Muraki (Ran, Kagemusha, Throne of Blood) — doesn’t feel earthly in any way, shape, or form.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
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Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026
But a battlefield promotion to Ayatollah was arranged, blending faith with politics in an exercise that critics said sullied both even before Khamenei reinforced his position by earthly means, elevating the IRGC.
—Karl Vick, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
The monkey and the lion have become Chinese emperors, Buddha’s earthly servants.
—Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Itsstark, alien landscape — with striking production design by the legendary Yoshirô Muraki (Ran, Kagemusha, Throne of Blood) — doesn’t feel earthly in any way, shape, or form.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthly
Adjective
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In the Paris Club, a similar power differential is reflected in the spatial and temporal arrangement of the procedures, which borders on the theatrical.—
Sven van Mourik,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Traditional microscopy methods often lack either the spatial or temporal resolution needed to capture such phenomena.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Jason Bateman delivers the mundane analogy like a pro, blending sincerity and uncertainty inside his singular, nervous vocal rhythms.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
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Spring window washing sounds mundane.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Most of the time, the creature is invisible, only given away by roars or its footprints in the soil of this extra-terrestrial world.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Based on Mathieu Mategot's original 1953 design, the Satellite pendant has, as its name would suggest, a terrestrial presence.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Over 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Endowed not only with a privileged birthright but—unlike the actual princes over in England, who had weak chins and went bald young—the physical stature to match?—
Jeffrey Eugenides,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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Regulators are trying to push drug development into a post-animal testing era.—
Meghana Keshavan,
STAT,
19 Mar. 2026
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In Oman, as across the Gulf, a top-tier camel is less animal than asset class: meticulously pedigreed, obsessively trained, and paraded before judges who score on everything from ear set to gait.—
Tanya Akim,
Forbes.com,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Earthly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earthly. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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