(1) Cruz, the red-meat Texas senator with an army of conservative followers , raised eyebrows on Tuesday when he told the Texas Tribune that people who believe global warming is real are “the equivalent of the flat-Earthers”.
(2) Even the EU’s more moderate flat-earthers argue that Greece’s debts should merely be rolled over while it “rebalances” to German levels of efficiency.
(3) Very few journalists (at least in the developed world) would give space to those claiming HIV doesn't cause Aids, to flat-Earthers, or those who believe that vaccines make us ill.
(4) Far more people have gone green now but they're quietly green, not evangelical, so you're still left having to deal with the flat-earthers, who are even more angry now that they've been proved wrong.
(5) "If you're attacked by Liam Fox on one side and Ed Balls from the other, you're in the right place," as if navigating by splitting the difference between flat and round earthers.
(6) Bill Shorten recommits to emissions trading, opposing 'Abbott’s society of flat-earthers' Read more Goodness, I thought, what policy could that crazy Labor leader be proposing?
(7) Professor Steve Jones's report on BBC science coverage raised the difficult question of impartiality: should the BBC stand impartially between sense and nonsense, between flat- and round-earthers?
(8) Achieving a consensus Some will no doubt argue that people acquire the labels they deserve - and that ‘flat-earther’, climate denying, conspiracy theorists have no interest in productive dialogue with screeching, doom-mongering ‘eco-loons’.
(9) From my time in the BBC newsroom, I know how anxiously the national broadcaster navigates by the sound of press decibels, striving for a mid course, even if that’s often between flat and round earthers.
Earthling
Definition:
(n.) An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1997 he arranged an ambitious live ‘cybercast’ of his Earthling concert in Boston – although the limits of internet access at the time meant that capacity was quickly reached, and most viewers received only stuttering images and error messages.
(2) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
(3) 11.04am BST So Costa Rica has certainly endeared itself to the its fellow Earthlings throughout this World Cup, speaking its people's reputation as a happy, dignified and talented bunch.
(4) Outside (1995) found him reunited with Eno and was another commercial success, despite its laborious concept and clumsy adoption of grungy, industrial sounds, while Earthling (1997) borrowed elements of the drum’n’bass style practised by such UK artists as Goldie and Asian Dub Foundation.
(5) We're earthlings – Europeans, in fact – and the preservation of our language is something we care deeply about.
(6) The other Pythons are being lined up to voice the roles of a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything".
(7) But while astronomers believe that it "probably" also possesses water and land, earthlings secretly harbouring hopes that such a planet could potentially host new colonies from our own increasingly overpopulated home may be in for a disappointment.
(8) The experience of being in space is magnificent," he says, "but only in the context of being an Earthling and knowing that you’re coming back to Earth."
(9) Not surprisingly, when the moonwalkers returned to earth, many earthlings asked this very same question.
(10) The absolute necessity of the bedroom tax, for example, has never been explained to any earthling using ordinary words.
(11) The artist also promised further exclusive tracks and webcasts, including footage from the Earthling tour.
(12) It's a little bit Minecraft, in the way you craft buildings from raw materials, with elements of city-building and resource management games added on as you build a space-base, complete Earthling-rescuing missions and play and chat with friends online.