galaxy-wide adv.
across or extending throughout a galaxy
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1949 Time Axis in Startling Stories Jan. 50/1
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Henry Kuttner
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When I investigated Belem’s disappearance I was much disturbed to learn how many other Mechandroids had vanished at the same time. I immediately assigned an all-out search, Galaxywide. But I was not too hopeful.
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1965 Retief’s War in Worlds of If Oct. 12/1
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Keith Laumer
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Technically, the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne is dedicated to the protection of Terran interests, Galaxy-wide.
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1978 Chaining Lady xvii. 258
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Piers Anthony
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Melody tried to compose her thoughts, but they were a jumble of uncertainties. What decisions could she have made to avoid this present doom? Had there ever been any hope, or was the Andromedan onslaught prevailing galaxywide? Surely Segment Knyfh was holding out, and the other center-galaxy cultures.
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1984 In a Crumbling Pastry World in Apertures 94
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David Wingrove
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As an aside in the story [sc. ‘Sight of a Silhouette’ (Aldiss, 1958)] we learn that the central character, the Galaxy-wide famous archeologist Norman Dall, is 900 years old.
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1990 Vor Game viii. 122
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Lois McMaster Bujold
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Beta Colony only advertised its second or third latest advantages; staying several steps ahead of everybody else in R&D had been the harsh world’s stock-in-trade for a couple of generations. In time, Beta Colony would be marketing its new device galaxy-wide. In the meantime...
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1994 Grailblazers in For Two Nights Only (2004) iv. 455
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Tom Holt
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‘Yes,’ said Bedevere, ‘like I was saying, a misunderstanding. You see, we’re not money, we’re people.’ Iophon grinned a little. ‘That’s all right, sir,’ he said. ‘People are accepted at more than two billion outlets galaxy-wide. People, if you’ll pardon the phrase, sir, will do nicely. Just sign here, and we’ll have you debited in no time.’ He held out the clipboard. Bedevere backed away slightly.
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2010 Mouse & Dragon xxix. 264
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Steve Miller
Sharon Lee
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This was a pet project. When it had eventually borne in upon Anne precisely how much discretionary funding was available to her, as a full adult member of Clan Korval, she had lost no time in setting up a trust to fund a university chair to be filled by scholars who excelled in the teaching of comparative cultures, cultural genetics, or any other of a very short list of diversification studies. Once she, and more importantly, Mr. dea’Gauss, was satisfied with the terms of the trust, universities galaxywide had been solicited to apply for a grant.
Research requirements
antedating 1949
Earliest cite
Henry Kuttner, in Startling Stories.
Research History
Jeff Prucher submitted a cite from a 2002 reprint of Keith Laumer's "Retief's War", which MIke Christie verified in the 1965 magazine publication.Bee Ostrowsky submitted a large number of cites.
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