spherical
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And while watching the film recently at Inglewood’s Cosm, home to an all-encompassing high-definition spherical screen, I half expected a letter to fall upon my lap.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Instead of looking directly for faint starlight, they searched for tight groupings of globular clusters, which are dense, spherical collections of stars that typically orbit galaxies.
From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026
Other noteworthy pieces included dresses with spherical birdcage-inspired silhouettes, while other models wore transparent vest tops with their dresses gathered around their waists.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
It is impossible to draw a flat, rectangular map of the spherical Earth without distortions.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
The sun, in Anaximander’s view, was not a spherical body, but a world-girdling wheel of fire; the bright orb we see in the sky is just a hole through which we glimpse the conflagration beyond.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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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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