How to Use planetary in a Sentence

planetary

adjective
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  • Read on for when and how to spot the 2024 planetary parade.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024
  • Saturn holds the overnight planetary spotlight for most of the month.
    — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This planetary shift, from April 1 through May 13, is like a bad April fool’s joke.
    — Essence Lifestyle, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Learn more about planetary orbits and the search for life around the galaxy.
    — Michael Roston, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • This will be the first time NASA sends a probe to our nearest planetary neighbor in over 30 years.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
  • But a key problem with this idea is that for most would-be planetary systems, the winds spoil the party.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
  • But while Lucy will head back to the outer planetary parts of the solar system, the spacecraft still has one last job to do.
    — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The relations of human beings—some of them at least—to the rest of planetary life had shifted.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • Our planetary system and the sun at its center are not special but, judging by all those stars in the sky, one of many in the Milky Way.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 29 July 2021
  • Season three jumps ahead a decade to the early 1990s with a high-octane race to a new planetary frontier.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
  • In the past, Juno has also studied Jupiter's planetary rings.
    — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • This event, while cool and a bit uncommon, is not a true planetary alignment.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The star is said to have risen in the east and guided travelers and prophets to the south, Throop said, adding that these ancient accounts make planetary sense.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The planetary trio will appear slightly above it, forming a triangle with Mars to the right and the other two planets to the left of the moon just a bit.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • In Season 3, the series moved into the early ‘90s with a race to a new planetary frontier: Mars.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 July 2022
  • Rao explains that the planetary positioning with each other and the sun will block most chances of a clear view.
    — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 28 May 2024
  • Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This is the highest planetary moon-count in our solar system.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The month comes to a close with a brilliant new moon in the same sign on Jan. 29, followed by Uranus (Aquarius’ planetary ruler) going direct the very next day.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Don’t Look Up isn’t a movie about climate change, but one about planetary defense from errant rocks in space.
    — Rebecca Oppenheimer, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But the question of planetary boundaries is a topic for another time, so back to Unilever.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
  • That plane of planetary motion forms a line across our sky, and the planets always appear to travel across it.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Uranus and Neptune, only visible through a telescope, will be part of the planetary alignment in the first quarter of the year.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Here’s what to know about the upcoming planetary alignment.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • Venus isn't the only planetary gem lighting up the night sky this January.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Studying the dust belts can help unlock more of the secrets behind how planetary systems form.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • The world’s largest and wealthiest economies failed to make commitments to keep planetary warming to 1.5°C.
    — Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The planetary phenomenon is expected to be arranged in the shape of an arc.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This meeting of planets in the sky is referred to as a planetary conjunction.
    — Sarah Molano and Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 July 2021

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