intergalactically adv.
between or among galaxies; (broadly) (used as an intensive), extremely, incredibly
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1959 Crowd Watches Take-Off in Los Angeles Times 25 Jan.
With a mighty roar (from the crowd) Potchki II began its years-long trip into the unknown. The Intergalactically Famous SDC Marching Band broke into the ‘Colonel Bogey March’.
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1973
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Robert Sheckley
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It’s nice to have intelligent neighbors, speaking intergalactically, but it’s not nice if those neighbors are a great deal smarter than you are, and maybe quicker and stronger and more aggressive, too.
Welcome to the Standard Nightmare in H. Harrison Nova 3 4 -
1980 Punch 28 May 833/3
The space flight and satellite section riveted even me, who am intergalactically unawakened.
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1997
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Anne McCaffrey
Margaret Ball
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There hadn’t been time to procure the kind of recording equipment an intergalactically known vid-artist would expect to use.
Acorna (1998) 240 -
2011
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[Print-on-demand publishing is] also becoming an enormous market with an intergalactically long tail.
New Hope for Books in Wired Dec. (electronic ed.) -
2012
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Rob Reid
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What’s with her? I wondered. She was gorgeous and smart—and apparently spectacularly rich and intergalactically famous. So why was she always such a ... brat?
Year Zero xi. 174
Research requirements
antedating 1959
Earliest cite
L.A. Times
Research History
Simon Koppel submitted a cite from a newspaper reprint of Robert Sheckley's "Welcome to the Standard Nightmare"; Jesse Sheidlower verified it in the original printing in Harry Harrison's "Nova 3".Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2012 cite from Rob Reid.
Earliest cite in the OED is from Punch Magazine, 1980.
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