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- noun Plural form of
earthling .
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Examples
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Professor Simon Conway Morris at Cambridge University will tell a conference on alien life that extraterrestrials will most likely have evolved just like "earthlings" and so resemble us to a degree with heads, limbs and bodies.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Professor Simon Conway Morris at Cambridge University will tell a conference on alien life that extraterrestrials will most likely have evolved just like "earthlings" and so resemble us to a degree with heads, limbs and bodies.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Whoops, Goldman's Birnbaum refers to senators as "earthlings"
The Guardian World News Richard Adams 2010
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I love afterellen. com, I remember reading about a show coming up, that's supposed to be called earthlings, a while back; -) but I feel, like it has lost it's ecstatic "conspirative community" feel.
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I love afterellen. com, I remember reading about a show coming up, that's supposed to be called earthlings, a while back; -) but I feel, like it has lost it's ecstatic "conspirative community" feel.
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I love afterellen. com, I remember reading about a show coming up, that's supposed to be called earthlings, a while back; -) but I feel, like it has lost it's ecstatic "conspirative community" feel.
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While Manning does have more than most of us ever will, he is un-flashy like the hit sitcom, stays out of tabloids, and is almost average Joe-esque in his work ethic that results in grind-out victories — so much so that, like a lot of us mere earthlings, he believes that he doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
Eli Manning vs. Tom Brady: What Do Their Favorite TV Shows Say About Them? 2012
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Which describes not just its ability to impress other planets but the presence of liquid water, similar to the kind we earthlings consume in 12-ounce plastic bottles.
Patricia Draznin: GJ 581g: Cool Planets Are Hard to Find Patricia Draznin 2010
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While the speaker may have traveled 650 miles to Nashville to deliver this attack, his speech came from the far reaches of the solar system, detached from the space-time continuum that keeps us earthlings rooted to reality.
Timothy Karr: Speaker Boehner's Space Odyssey Timothy Karr 2011
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Imagine my surprise when the agent in this book has the exact same speech pattern - as did his boss, and his assistant, AND the 2 aliens who communicate with the earthlings.
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