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globe

[glohb] / gloʊb /


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This year marks the 25th anniversary of Klum's party, which brings celebrities across the globe together dressed in their wild, weird and wonderful costumes.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The other big sticking point is finding new sources of cash to fund conservation efforts around the globe -- a hot-button issue with public budgets under strain.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ritterbusch still expects prices to remain high through most of next year, “especially since commercial and strategic stockpiles around the globe will need to be replenished.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Over the last two years Chuwi has traveled around the globe, and the foursome confirm that will influence their next project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

The victory of the terraqueous globe theory following the discovery of America is the first great triumph of experience over philosophical deduction, and thus the beginning of a revolution.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

She’s tried to earn extra cash by selling used items like Disney snow globes and ’90s-era Tommy Hilfiger clothing on eBay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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

“Golden globes 2024 start to end,” she captioned the post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024

I get so excited I let go of the balloons—about a zillion red, yellow, blue, purple, and green rubber globes bobble all over the ceiling.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

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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