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globe

[glohb] / gloʊb /


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Herzog’s adventurous spirit has led him to explore the furthest reaches of the globe, but also inward to map the strangest recesses of the heart.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

Through her multi-club ownership model, which already spans England, France and the United States, she wants the standards being established at London City to be replicated across the globe.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

The U.S. is still an economic behemoth with the most powerful military in world history and assets all over the globe.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2026

Then, the war in Iran scrambled inflation forecasts and jacked up fuel costs across the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

If her globe-shaped tummy had been a real globe, she would have gone from sunrise to sunset, just like that.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

“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

Gut-Behrami also leads the standings in Super-G and giant slalom, putting her on course to match Shiffrin’s impressive feat of claiming four crystal globes in 2019.

From Seattle Times Feb. 16, 2024

They burst into the next room—a gold-painted drawing room, with a hole in the ceiling and chewed-looking curtains—and then into a room full of maps, with a collection of globes stained with dust.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

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

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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