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a huge physical or conceptual distance
they have ideas for the new project that are a world away from his own
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Recent Examples of world
This colorful world and fun storytelling, paired with top musical talent, is the perfect show for families.
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Sarah Scott, Parents, 14 Jan. 2026
Unlike many artists who separate those worlds, Sierota refuses to see them as competing forces.
—Holly Alvarado, Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
There is a child whose happy world is shattered when his friends from Oz cannot make the leap into what people around him consider to be reality.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Take, for instance, the Pokémon Go fad, which took people outside into the real world.
—Meg Walters, Glamour, 14 Jan. 2026
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Adina is an alien who’s been sent to earth to observe humanity and report back to her superiors.—
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At this exclusive, high-energy event, the world’s most innovative leaders will convene to explore how AI, humanity, and strategy converge to redefine, again, the future of work.—
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But Larry has long harbored more globe-spanning ambitions.—
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Every detail is carefully considered, right down to the moon-like globe lighting (which we're told is meant to emulate the bulbs surrounding a starlet's dressing room mirrors), and a calming palette of forest greens, powder pinks and deep blues gives the space a classic yet contemporary feel.—
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Bowie set his sights on the ends of the observable universe, and on places even darker.—
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Additionally, the film will finally unite the Avengers with several actors from Fox's X-Men films, which took place in a separate universe that will presumably crash into Disney's MCU.—
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Scientists aren’t entirely sure how these beating hearts at the centers of most large galaxies formed.—
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The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.—
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Launched in November 2013, MAVEN entered orbit around Mars in September 2014 to study the planet's upper atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind.—
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When Galaxy's Edge first opened, its backstory dictated that it was set betweenThe Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker at the Black Spire Outpost (an original creation of the park) on the planet of Batuu.—
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Plenty of us leave winter watering to nature and, in areas with adequate snow or rainfall, supplemental irrigation may not be needed.—
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Not infrequently, the questions of the past that is never lost and is irreplaceable in western art arise like a fascism, or a subordination to what remains of its dialectic nature, that relies on myth to legitimate fascism’s inseparable relation to beauty.—
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Survey respondents shared multiple ways that unemployment can have a negative impact including cancelling dates for financial reasons and hesitating to even ask someone out at all.—
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The best coaches play the underdog card the way Thelonious Monk tickled the ivories.—
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The listings networks allow sellers to first list their homes discreetly in a Compass-only network while buyers working with Compass agents ostensibly get a jump on anything good before the broader public sees it.—
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Hunter, meanwhile, is excited to meet her new public.—
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“World.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/world. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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