spherical
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The goal: hit all seven players on the opposing team using perfectly spherical snowballs made with a special machine, or capture their flag.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
The team found that sea silk's iridescence is created by a spherical protein structure known as "photonin."
From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2026
It is impossible to draw a flat, rectangular map of the spherical Earth without distortions.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
That is partly the result of viewing the spherical Earth on a flat map…
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
When we look around us in our little corner of the Milky Way, we see many stars surrounded by spherical shells of glowing gas, the planetary nebulae.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Vocabulary lists containing spherical
50 Great Words from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
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2015 Spelling Bee - Words from Round 2
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Unit 2: Evolution
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