sphere
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"Both underlined the growing need to ensure the safety and well-being of children in the rapidly evolving digital sphere," Metsola's office said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 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
Folks might be especially intrigued by things the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has been doing lately that start to overlap with the Fed’s sphere of influence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Having other planets with life on them was as silly as having a sphere with two centers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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"They don't want to have an international order. They want to have big powers with spheres of influence. And this court stands in the way," he said, referring to the ICC.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Beyond Odesa, a national poll showed 80% support for Ukrainian dominating "all spheres of communication" in 2022.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
He encounters criminals, a spell-casting witch and his opponent from the heavenly spheres, an archangel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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
Next, a troop of jugglers with polished spheres of gold, which they hurl up high jn flashing flights, and catch, and hurl again, making' fountain-jets of bright jugglery.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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 Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
The sphered life of the race is in its subjects.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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
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
His thoughts are sphered and crystalline; his style "prouder than when blue Iris bends;" his spirit fiery, impatient, wayward, indefatigable.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
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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