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  • noun Plural form of terrestrial.

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Examples

  • The market distortion effect it's having on the other three terrestrials is devastating ... timed with the depression, the effects are likely to cause lasting damage to ITV.

    House Points: Is the television licence fee doomed? 2008

  • While common patterns such as terrestrials (ants, grasshoppers, crickets), mayflies, and stoneflies will all work at times, no fly angler should be without a selection of small midges.

    Berks county news 2009

  • TWO It's a pretty faint little bugger, we can hardly make out any of its planets in the optical Well down in the infrared I'm picking up plenty from the two terrestrial-sized planets looks like a high albedo on both of 'em Wish we had a decent-sized star to reconnoiter this damn one's small as Ra an 'got a lotta flares on it give a look at' at corona big splotches all over it Bound to be variable, all the small stars are, so according to theory those 'terrestrials'II have big swings in the weather Doesn't look good for a stable biosphere on those Outer planets all 'bout Saturn-sized lotsa moons and two rings, some asteroids between those two, looks like it's a pretty standard pattern Why the Isis Watcher would beam a signal to this dead place I dunno maybe a mistake, huh Nigel?

    Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

  • They are the real “extra-terrestrials”, the real “Super-men”, the ultimate aliens.

    Books 2009

  • They are the real “extra-terrestrials”, the real “Super-men”, the ultimate aliens.

    Saints 2009

  • And the extra-terrestrials apparently so appeared: nobody asks Gabriel, how did you get in here?

    Angelical Participation? « Unknowing 2010

  • The glass would all be one-way privacy, so no-one (not even fellow extra-terrestrials) could see in from the outside.

    Brilliant Idea for a Pillow Designer 2010

  • They are the real “extra-terrestrials”, the real “Super-men”, the ultimate aliens.

    Ignatius Press 2009

  • She seems to think that somehow foreigners or extra-terrestrials pay federal taxes, not the states.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Starve the Beast: 2010

  • She seems to think that somehow foreigners or extra-terrestrials pay federal taxes, not the states.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Starve the Beast: 2010

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