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sphere

[sfeer] / sfɪər /




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One common representation is the "Bloch sphere," a geometric model in which every possible pure state of a single qubit corresponds to a point on the surface of a sphere.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

But our fragmented healthcare system is also a factor in so many of the ills that afflict ordinary American households within the sphere of “affordability.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

They are also the most sensitive in the AI sphere to rising interest rates, since their borrowing costs were already elevated before recent turmoil in the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Although not necessarily a household name across Australia, in the political sphere Helen Haines is both well-known and well regarded as an anti-corruption campaigner.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Though he was eager to examine the sphere and the paper the old man had given him, a chorus of eager squeaks told Jeremy that his animals wanted to be fed.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

A major problem was the widespread practice of treating asteroids as spheres.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

So we did what you’re “supposed” to do in certain socioeconomic spheres after you’ve gotten married and had a kid: We decided we would make our family an island unto itself.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Schneider is retooling in anticipation of increased use of AI in the construction and manufacturing spheres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

The powerful spheres were usually reserved for motors and big machines, but up here, tiny Jade orbs twinkled in the windows of fancy shops and cafes.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Now crack thy lungs and split thy brazen pipe; Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon.

From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

That so august a spirit, sphered so fair, Should from the starry sessions of his peers, Decline to quench so bright a brilliancy In hell’s sick spume.

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw

Last night, sphered in thy shining, A Circe—mystic destinies divining; To-day but as a feather Torn from a seraph's wing in sinful weather, Down-drifting from the portals Of Paradise, unto the land of mortals.

From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice

His thoughts are sphered and crystalline; his style “prouder than when blue Iris bends;” his spirit fiery, impatient, wayward, indefatigable.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

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

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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