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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  • Spread over two dining rooms and long bar and wine wall, with 200 seats, Bia’s lay-out and design have snap, with potted greenery and globe ceiling lighting that is both flattering and surprising.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Settings rarely turn up, nor do identifying attributes — a musician’s instrument, a scholar’s book, a geographer’s globe.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 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
  • In a world increasingly reliant on autonomous agents and decentralized networks, this moment underscored a powerful truth.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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  • But climate change is altering that equation, especially in places like New England where coastal waters are warming faster than almost anywhere on earth, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, especially in winter, fueling a green crab boom.
    Jacob Wycoff, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The earth has been razed bare as a result of deforestation, which has also weakened the soil layers that were washed away during the rainy season.
    Gwendolina Duval, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Planet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planet. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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