Terran
Americanadjective
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Terrans
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His company, Terran, is testing a machine to build 3D-printed homes out of dirt and clay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
"It was a lot better to just put those resources into Terran R because that's going to be a way-more-profitable way to allocate the team that we have," Ellis said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 17, 2023
Some 85 percent of the mass of Terran 1 was made using 3-D printers, and each rocket can be crafted from nothing in 60 days.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
When Relativity Space, a California start-up that aims to compete against SpaceX, finally launched its Terran 1 rocket manufactured almost entirely by 3D printing at 11:25 p.m.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2023
The surface over the hills was bessa, soft and still unpacked, what Terran skiers I think call “wild” snow.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Like asking Terrans why all our vehicles must go so fast; we answer “Why not?”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Terrans tend to feel they’ve got to get ahead, make progress.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Be assured, Jacob, that I have nothing to fear from any childish mechanisms your Terrans can contrive!"
From The Reluctant Weapon by Howard L. Myers
Back to Little Texas for the Terrans and back to the swamps for the Narakans.
From Narakan Rifles, About Face! by Jan Smith
In the twenty odd years that Terrans and Rumi had occupied different halves of the same planet, the number of men who had learned the Rumi language wouldn't have filled a small room.
From Narakan Rifles, About Face! by Jan Smith
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