planet-wide adj.
extending over or affecting an entire planet
OED records a 1920 example in the sense ‘affecting all of Earth’.
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1932
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R. F. Starzl
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A planet-wide sentimental spree over the revival of the monarchy and the marriage of the beautiful and popular princess.
Martian Cabal in Astounding Stories May 204/2 -
1934
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Stanley G. Weinbaum
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With only coal and oil—just combustion or electric power—where'd they get the energy to build a planet-wide canal system, thousands and thousands of miles of 'em?
Valley of Dreams in Wonder Stories Nov. 690/1 -
1945 Astounding Science Fiction June 32
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Handing over a planet-wide empire to a successor is not a thing to be undertaken in a day or two—normally.
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1954
Chad Oliver
After a million years or so of bashing in each other’s brains with bigger and better weapons, the human animal had finally achieved a fairly uniform, stable, planetwide civilization.
Field Expedient in W. F. Nolan Edge of Forever (1971) 137 -
1979
James P. Hogan
The only way you'll ever know how a planetwide complex of them will perform is by building it.
Two Faces of Tomorrow (1987) 87 -
1984
Robert Silverberg
His own planet, Waldemar, was a frosty place with a planetwide winter for three-quarters of the year, and on Sempoanga he erupted with great gusto into eternal tropical summer.
Trouble With Sempoanga in R. Silverberg Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (1984) 171—2 -
1992
Neal Stephenson
A fundamental rebuilding of the whole Metaverse, carried out on a planetwide, corporate level.
Snow Crash xlviii. 328 -
2002
I won prizes for playing the conscree, and travelled to Sobrianna, the major city on Terne to take part in planetwide competition.
Stone 184 -
2002 Cult Times Apr. 60/4
An advertising executive discovers that he is actually living in a virtual world designed to stop people knowing of a planetwide apocalypse.
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2005
Iain M. Banks
The gas-giant filled the sky, so close that its rotund bulk took on the appearance of a vast wall, its belts and zones of tearing, swirling, ever-eddying clouds looking like colossal contra-rotating, planet-wide streams of madly coloured liquid caught whirling past each other under perfectly transparent ice.
Algebraist iii. 157 -
2005
Charles Stross
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Although, on the other hand, if we can mobilize enough broad support to become the first visible planetwide polity…
Accelerando 369 -
2020
Hank Green
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We knew it was there, but whatever systems Carl used to turn our biosphere into a planetwide computer were too elegant for us to even perceive. You’d almost think it wasn’t there, which I guess is the point.
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor 441
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antedating 1932
Earliest cite
R. F. Starzl, in Astounding
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a 1945 cite from editorial material by John Campbell in Astounding.Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1949 reprint of Stanley G. Weinbaum's "Valley of Dreams": Jesse Sheidlower verified this in the original publication (Wonder Stories, November 1934)
Fred Galvin submitted a 1942 cite from "The Leapers" by Carol Grey (pseudonym of Robert W. Lowndes)
Fred Galvin submitted a 1941 cite from "The King's Eye" by James MacCreigh (pseudonym of Frederik Pohl)
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a reprint of "The Machine" by "Don A. Stuart" (John W. Campbell): we would like to verify this in its first publication (Astounding Stories, February 1935).
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2020 cite from Hank Green.
Earliest cite in OED2: 1969. Updated to 1920, in a non-SFnal context, in OED3.
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