globe
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The sport not only brings unity to the country - for those who make it to the top, it also offers a chance to cross the globe.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
"It is likely to bring above-average temperatures to much of the globe and shift rainfall patterns, increasing the risk of drought and floods in different regions," the body said in its monthly update.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The original art for the piece featured a globe stitched out of yarn—crochet stitches, specifically.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
Its chief technology officer, Eric Park, travels the globe in search of computing resources hiding where few else think to look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The word itself had lost little of its power to startle and had, due to my ignorance of the physical place it occupied on the globe, assumed a peculiar life of its own.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Ignore her pleas and give these soothing cryo-sculpting globes that aim to ease puffiness and will help her find a moment of peace in the morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
“Golden globes 2024 start to end,” she captioned the post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
Beside her are several spun glass globes, corked shut.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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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