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extra-planetary

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of extraplanetary.

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Examples

  • Well, from my extra-planetary perch in the Maine woods, taking the long and the broad view, it was ever more clear that Afghanistan is unwinnable by military means and the U.S. should leave, the sooner the better.

    Nick Mills: The View From the Maine Woods 2010

  • The other took the same form and scent and voice but was a blankness who in the morning looked up at you with glazed and distant eyes as though connected to some extra-planetary neural network, downloading streams of data that no one but he could connect to.

    Ann, meet Bob 2009

  • The other took the same form and scent and voice but was a blankness who in the morning looked up at you with glazed and distant eyes as though connected to some extra-planetary neural network, downloading streams of data that no one but he could connect to.

    Ann, meet Bob 2009

  • For that is, essentially, what this planet is, on a larger scale: a mostly closed system with finite resources, which is acted upon by geological, biological and extra-planetary solar and galactic forces.

    Belching, bloviating and biociding our way to extinction 2008

  • This certainly seems to make more obvious the importance of protecting the delicate balance of our upper atmosphere, which is apparently doing more than we knew to protect us from extra-planetary energy.

    Waldo Jaquith - Major evolutionary discovery. 2006

  • Resources are always short on extra-planetary missions – anything that can be sourced locally means a lighter payload, with room for more non-consumables like science kit.

    There’s Air In Them There Hills | Blog | Futurismic 2006

  • Space settlement both increases the amount and type of resources available for humans to develop and utilize and diverts much of the competition amongst ourselves for control of planetary resources to exploration and discovery of extra-planetary resources.

    The Speculist: Space Ark Survey Results 2006

  • Space settlement both increases the amount and type of resources available for humans to develop and utilize and diverts much of the competition amongst ourselves for control of planetary resources to exploration and discovery of extra-planetary resources.

    The Speculist: July 2006 Archives 2006

  • The complex had been designed to facilitate specific functions, he knew, of which defense against an extra-planetary assault was not one.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • The complex had been designed to facilitate specific functions, he knew, of which defense against an extra-planetary assault was not one.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

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