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Recent Examples of plutonian The morning of April 1, 1976, Moore announced on a BBC radio station that at 9:47 am, Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, creating the Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect. National Geographic, 31 Mar. 2016 His most recent discoveries, the two tiny Plutonian satellites, were named with the help of a popular vote. Nadia Drake, WIRED, 15 July 2013
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Adjective
  • The Hughes Fire broke out in the late morning and within hours charred more than 15 square miles of trees and brush, sending up plumes of dark smoke near Lake Castaic, a popular recreation area about 40 miles from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are burning for a third week.
    Marcio Jose Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The popular hangout also specializes in dark lagers and hoppy IPAs.
    Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Without these, retirees may experience lower self-worth and a lack of purpose that makes depressive symptoms worse.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • For every one-unit increase in a father's pre-birth well-being, the depressive symptom score was decreased by 1.2%.
    Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But for now, Bannon is a fairly lonely voice shouting against AI velocity.
    Axios, Axios, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Some suggested ways to make the dog feel less lonely when Lauren isn't home, such as leaving the TV on.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Matt Harrison, president of Kuka Home North America, which has a furniture manufacturing base in Monterrey, fears the future could be bleak.
    David Culver, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The negotiations have seemingly stalled and the market for him is bleak.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The somber music should have been my first clue, but I was too wrapped up in the euphoria of Jane soon realizing that someone valued her life enough to save her from certain death.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • When a photographer suggests that the family pose with a somber demeanor for a shot that will be featured in an article about Rubens’ disappearance, Eunice refuses, instructing her children to smile broadly.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Viewership increased, the Afternoon Depression Zone grew less depressing, everyone seemed happier.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • As well as Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, today is known as Blue Monday – thought to be the most depressing day of the year.
    Alyssa Jaffer, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Compared to the desolate, almost alien landscape of South Dakota, the North Dakota badlands are flush with vibrant vegetation: Rocky Mountain juniper woodlands, cottonwoods that thrive in the Little Missouri River basin, and sunflowers, asters, and rabbitbrush that bloom in the late summer months.
    Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
  • After the twinkling lights of the holiday season have been packed away, winter can feel downright dull and desolate, especially for families with energetic kids trapped inside by the cold.
    Erica Jackson Curran, Parents, 25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The old is dying, the new cannot be born, and a great variety of morbid symptoms has appeared.
    Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • What Mishima set out to do in his final decade was to devise a cause to die for, a cause that had historical precedents but was still a figment of his richly morbid imagination.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Plutonian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutonian. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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