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  • adverb In a planetary manner or context; like planets.

Etymologies

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planetary +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Both are the true losers of the last decade and the saddest of stories, planetarily speaking.

    Tom Engelhardt: Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers Tom Engelhardt 2010

  • Both are the true losers of the last decade and the saddest of stories, planetarily speaking.

    Tom Engelhardt: Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers Tom Engelhardt 2010

  • Is there a way that we can ratchet it up to a more harmonious flow between them, either planetarily or even as just more of American or North American culture?

    iShift - Don Beck on the Essential Shifts (2006 Transcript) William Harryman 2009

  • And, as he instructs an associate, "" You gotta think planetarily. ''

    Requiem For A Hustler 2008

  • My experience with hippies is that they are generally far from planetarily engaged.

    From On High 2006

  • My experience with hippies is that they are generally far from planetarily engaged.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • As people of Earth become spiritually conscious and planetarily responsible, they will find themselves happily laying aside the trappings of their befuddled infancy.

    Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

  • As people of Earth become spiritually conscious and planetarily responsible, they will find themselves happily laying aside the trappings of their befuddled infancy.

    Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

  • For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed horizontally swooping upon them.

    Great Sea Stories Various 1897

  • For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed horizontally swooping upon them.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

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