1
as in temporal
having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
scientists haven't even found all the terrestrial life on our planet
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as in mundane
having to do with the practical details of regular life
let's focus on terrestrial issues—such as how to pay the bills
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Recent Examples of terrestrial
Unlike terrestrial settings, space missions expose machines to vacuum conditions, microgravity, extreme temperature swings, and high levels of radiation, pushing robotic systems far beyond conventional operating limits, reports CNEVPost.
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Jan. 2026
During all that time, miniscule rocks and debris should continue to to collide and merge into the building blocks of future gas and terrestrial planets.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
Long-nosed bandicoots make their homes in forests, shrublands, grasslands, and terrestrial environments.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
Like terrestrial plants, sargassum needs nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Jan. 2026
During all that time, miniscule rocks and debris should continue to to collide and merge into the building blocks of future gas and terrestrial planets.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
Long-nosed bandicoots make their homes in forests, shrublands, grasslands, and terrestrial environments.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
Like terrestrial plants, sargassum needs nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for terrestrial
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What looked like ideological bias was, more often, temporal lag.—
Charles Edward Gehrke,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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Again and again, Tennyson fills his beautifully wrought poems with enormous, unfathomable depths—sometimes cosmic, sometimes temporal, sometimes psychological, often oceanic.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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To an outsider, this looks like a mundane infrastructure dispute.—
Yunus Emre Tozal,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2026
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But most of the messages were more mundane, such as highlighting support for requiring voters to provide identification at the polls.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Both Bloom’s and Brick’s physical devices may also give them an edge with young people who increasingly prefer the analog over the digital.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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There are more overtly sexy moments in Fennell’s movie — the physical intimacy is ratcheted up significantly from the book — but this scene underlines the Brontë’s themes of desire and repression — and the friction between them — that imprinted on the filmmaker as a teen.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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Across from shops fixing cars and selling coffee, a black-and-white brick building is where locals go for a place that’s classic and classy, though scrumptious bar bites and a half-price wine night are everyday draws.—
USA TODAY NETWORK,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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While ChatGPT targeted everyday users, Anthropic has focused on selling chatbot services to business customers.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Not quite plant, not quite animal; delicious and wild and rare.—
Callie Sumlin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
15 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, dogs were more likely to respond to animal stimuli than to non-animal stimuli.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 July 2025
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Iran’s rulers, like many religious fundamentalists, celebrate indifference to earthly life and pin their sights on posthumous rewards.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Cognition and sensorimotor functions emerged from the evolutionary pressures of an unpredictable earthly environment.—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Terrestrial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terrestrial. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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