globe
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In Rome, a perennially popular destination for tourists from the UK and around the globe, everyone we spoke to in the Piazza di Spagna had an EES story.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Between them lies a globe illuminated by a view of Potosí, the domain they all shared, if unequally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Dozens of phones buzzed across the globe last December.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Fans around the globe, regardless of rooting interest, have come together to decry a common enemy: soccer’s instant replay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
This outermost sphere was a midnight blue globe encrusted with tiny glowing points of light—the stars.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Antique globes are mixed with model boats, window panes, wooden masks and painted watermelons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Do you want a facility that makes snow globes or one that makes semiconductors?” asked White.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
And it came with added significance as she became the first man or woman in the history of the alpine skiing World Cup to win more than eight globes in a single event.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
Half a world away, Japanese scientists are using shining golden globes to search for the same answers.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
He had fake snow and snow globes and stockings hung by the fireplace and lots of wrapped presents from Santa Claus.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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Art Deco touches inform outdoor marquees, globed chandeliers, and vintage Audubon wallpaper is glinting with pink birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
The Peter Kiewit Foundation no longer is funding the maintenance of Abbott Drive, which includes the so-called String of Pearls - globed lights that line a stretch of the thoroughfare.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
Donors have long paid for the so-called String of Pearls entrance, which features globed lights that line a stretch of Abbott Drive.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2018
A branch bounces, and out pops a Titi monkey with black, globed eyes and a pewter-colored beard.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Soft, salty bread and white cheese, slices of spiced meat, and quarters of some big, globed fruit that tasted of sugared rain.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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I seemed conscious only of a shaft of light, as it were, traversing the darkness and globing itself in a steady disc of radiance on a lonely door.
From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph
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