Definitions

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  • adjective Throughout a planet.
  • adverb Throughout a planet.

Etymologies

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planet +‎ -wide

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Examples

  • These questions remain … but the excitement about – and progress within – sustaianble communities planetwide is mounting.

    Sustainable Communities: N55 Grows Our Human Potential 2008

  • A long-term planetwide climate change could have threatened famine. "

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • A long-term planetwide climate change could have threatened famine. "

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • LittleBigPlanet recalled planetwide, new date issued

    CNET Australia 2008

  • In planetwide Global English, okay captures clear and congenial concepts, from “yes,” and “I agree,” to “got it,” “no problem,” “sure,” “all is fine,” “you may proceed,” and “your motorcycle battery is working again.”

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Since the rise of modern technologies of communication, beginning notably with the telegraph and the telephone but hardly ending there, English has been adopted throughout the world to become Global English, a language of unprecedented, planetwide recognition and use.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The very forces that enable crises to take on global scope are the same ones that have created an unstoppable demand for a new, planetwide lingua franca.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Or to the person of greatest skill in contexts involving planetwide competition.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Recent turbulence surrounding the Global English word credit shows that the world is, for now, struggling to “put heart” into a planetwide system of financial practices.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Global English is now evolving in a planetwide context.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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