globe
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The way they are dealing with these calls is attracting attention from around the globe - I wanted to find out how it's going, and if Wales is an outlier or an innovator?
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The FSB's Centre 16 has previously been accused by Western intelligence agencies of using malware for decades to try to gain access to spy on countries around the globe.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Once South Africa ceased to be a Cold War pawn, the economic costs of sanctions imposed by countries across the globe broke the government’s resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Infantino's Fifa Forward programme has funded football projects across the globe, and he has created opportunities through the expanded World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The red phone put him in direct touch with SAC wings all over the globe.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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“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
“Golden globes 2024 start to end,” she captioned the post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
Nice big globes of red and blue and yellow and green.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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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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