globe
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Investors’ ability to trade around the clock and across the globe took another step closer on Tuesday after the London Stock Exchange said it would start a new 24-hour trading venue.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
But I never bothered to tune into other matches even as soccer leagues from across the globe have stormed network, cable and streaming channels in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He finds the music continues to inspire young people, not just in China but across the globe, because of its "vibrancy and vitality".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
U.S. stock futures fell in early European trade, as a selloff in stocks linked to the artificial-intelligence buildout continued to reverberate across the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In the wake of Columbus’s discovery of America a silent revolution occurred, the invention of what we now call ‘the terraqueous globe’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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
From beneath the surface, undulating globes of gold-and-purple spotlights trail us.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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 Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph
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