globe
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The data comes as a strengthening El Nino pattern, expected to be the most intense in decades, begins to unleash extreme weather across much of the globe.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
You live in a diesel snow globe, and somebody just shook it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Every multinational corporation with assets and people around the globe should be supportive of the military community,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The estimates suggest that roughly 1 in 5 people across the globe will develop cancer at some point in their lives.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
At the other end of the pool, a massive statue stood thirty meters tall, a globe held aloft in her left hand and a staff in her right.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
He would study maps and globes, picturing the people and animals who call the coldest reaches of the Earth home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 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
Her dark skin always seemed to glow in the stage lights like it was streaked with stardust, and she wore her thick hair in two magnificent globes on either side of her head.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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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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In the back of the room was a marble fireplace, big as a sepulchre, and a globed gasolier—dripping with prisms and strings of crystal beading—sparkled in the dim.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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 Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
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