How to Use planetary in a Sentence
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Read on for when and how to spot the 2024 planetary parade.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024 -
Saturn holds the overnight planetary spotlight for most of the month.
— Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023 -
This planetary shift, from April 1 through May 13, is like a bad April fool’s joke.
— Essence Lifestyle, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024 -
For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline.
— Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024 -
But while Lucy will head back to the outer planetary parts of the solar system, the spacecraft still has one last job to do.
— Sarah Scoles, Wired, 17 Aug. 2021 -
The relations of human beings—some of them at least—to the rest of planetary life had shifted.
— Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023 -
Season three jumps ahead a decade to the early 1990s with a high-octane race to a new planetary frontier.
— James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022 -
In the past, Juno has also studied Jupiter's planetary rings.
— Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022 -
This event, while cool and a bit uncommon, is not a true planetary alignment.
— Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023 -
The star is said to have risen in the east and guided travelers and prophets to the south, Throop said, adding that these ancient accounts make planetary sense.
— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024 -
The planetary trio will appear slightly above it, forming a triangle with Mars to the right and the other two planets to the left of the moon just a bit.
— Eric MacK, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022 -
In Season 3, the series moved into the early ‘90s with a race to a new planetary frontier: Mars.
— Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 July 2022 -
Rao explains that the planetary positioning with each other and the sun will block most chances of a clear view.
— Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 28 May 2024 -
Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.
— Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023 -
This is the highest planetary moon-count in our solar system.
— Devika Rao, The Week, 14 Feb. 2023 -
Don’t Look Up isn’t a movie about climate change, but one about planetary defense from errant rocks in space.
— Rebecca Oppenheimer, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2021 -
But the question of planetary boundaries is a topic for another time, so back to Unilever.
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023 -
Uranus and Neptune, only visible through a telescope, will be part of the planetary alignment in the first quarter of the year.
— Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2024 -
Here’s what to know about the upcoming planetary alignment.
— Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023 -
Studying the dust belts can help unlock more of the secrets behind how planetary systems form.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 May 2023 -
The world’s largest and wealthiest economies failed to make commitments to keep planetary warming to 1.5°C.
— Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021 -
The planetary phenomenon is expected to be arranged in the shape of an arc.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023 -
To see Earth’s future, astronomers turn to a crystal ball filled with alien planetary systems.
— Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023 -
InSight was built to do more than study Mars alone; it was designed to provide new clues to planetary evolution as a whole.
— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Dec. 2022 -
Many planetary shifts and changes are causing havoc not just in the sky but also in our personal lives.
— Lisa Stardust, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024 -
But planetary warming also likely strengthened the force and height of Beryl’s waves.
— Scott Dance, Washington Post, 8 July 2024 -
What are some of the challenges of producing a life narrative about Whitney, who reached fame on a planetary scale?
— Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022 -
The ways that our non-human planetary neighbors adapt may offer clues (or warnings) for us.
— Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022 -
Jack Wisdom, a planetary scientist at MIT who led the latest study, told me.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022 -
Many of the young stars in this image are surrounded by discs of gas and dust, which may eventually produce planetary systems.
— Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2024
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