globe
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You live in a diesel snow globe, and somebody just shook it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
A guilty verdict could lead to severe financial penalties and hurt Huawei’s ability to deal with some banks and customers around the globe.
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
The distortion is a result of it being impossible to accurately represent the surface of a globe on a two-dimensional chart.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Within days, the story was headline news around the globe.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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
At one of the stalls selling snow globes are locals Nemer and Leila Awad, who say the markets remind them of Europe.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
Four globes to brighten up the Tatupu house this year.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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
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
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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