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sphere

[sfeer] / sfɪər /




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The sphere of joy around him has a gravitational pull that teammates are drawn to.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Robinson said Gamble had "impeccable and unquestionable credentials in the safeguarding sphere".

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

“I think more data is incredible,” Barnes-Lentz said, cheering on Tolo’s entry into the male-dominated sphere of longevity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

For empathy not to misfire in the policy sphere, he contends, we need a “cultural theory of mind,” where “one culture puts itself in the mind of another culture.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Infinity and zero are simply opposite poles on the Riemann sphere, and they can switch places in a blink.

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

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

The material consists of porous, hollow carbon spheres containing orderly radial nanochannels, along with substantial pore space and surface area.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

The authorities in Australia are investigating the origins of mysterious large silver spheres that washed up on a beach in northern Queensland this weekend.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

His goal, ultimately, is to bring together disparate groups of people from different spheres in a space everyone will feel comfortable in.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Frank and Leo recounted what had happened in the room with the Archimedes spheres, and the visions Gaea had shown them in the bronze mirror.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

His imagination, "nigh sphered in Heaven," claimed kindred only with what he saw from that height, and could raise to the same elevation with itself.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Alfred Rayney Waller

Some of the Parrot’s recitals have other tales sphered within them, so to say—a plan which must be familiar to all readers of the Arabian Nights.

From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by William Alexander Clouston

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

Now Amidon's eyes sought hers again, and held there; and the twin worlds, sphered in some slowly-turning orbit, seemed swinging in their native space.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell

Yea, for the sake of the wild western wind The sphered spirit scorns her flame-built throne, Because of primroses, time out of mind, The Lonely turns away from the Alone.

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various

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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