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[sfeer] / sfɪər /




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Now, this is starting to play out in the consumer sphere as Meta Platforms’

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

It turns out that it’s difficult to squish a sphere into a flat rectangle without some disfigurement, but the Mercator errors have finally led to pushback.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

There have been many prominent attempts over the years to solve the problem of accurately representing the surface of a sphere on a flat rectangle, each with its own benefits and drawbacks.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Unlike the nuclear sphere, where rules have been broadly understood since the Cold War, hybrid warfare escalation is "largely undefined", he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Reproducing the Greek arguments faithfully, Maimonides contended that the hollow spheres that twirled about the earth had to be moved by something, say, the next sphere out.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

When densely packed, the spheres have properties that allow the material to behave like a liquid, making it possible to push the mixture through a syringe.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

In Kanazawa, workers dressed in full-body overalls haul large blocks of ice across the factory floor, before starting on the delicate work of carving perfect spheres, cubes and rectangular blocks with cut corners.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

But for the most part, the tension was at least somewhat manageable, and both carried on in their own spheres.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

Public works such as the High Line park over former rail lines and Brooklyn Bridge Park merged the public and private spheres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

There are no physical laws common to both spheres.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou art sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness.

From Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings by Robert Haven Schauffler

So sings Milton to the sweet Birdmonth—he whose mighty mind "nigh sphered in Heaven," hymned the soft beauty of the first day that dawned upon the infant world, which surely must have been a May-morning.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

Its foliage was as fine as hair, apparently, and its mass sphered itself above the naked straight stem like an explosion of misty smoke.

From Following the Equator, Part 2 by Mark Twain

She seemed sphered in beauty, like the Soul of Morning in some painter's fantasy, with all great stars blossoming out in floral life about her, colorless, yet brilliant in shape and light.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various

Yet saw he something in the lives    Of those who'd ceased to live That sphered them with a majesty    Which living failed to give.

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy

I stick my head into the workshop and say hello to Ben Morling, founder and MD of both branches, who got into the Segway business after some success with a sphering, or zorbing, company.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2015

Greater than the sphering sea,  For it holds the sea and land; Seed of all ideas to be  Down its current borne like sand.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens




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