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sphere

[sfeer] / sfɪər /




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In May 2024, researchers from Project Hephaistos reported seven promising Dyson sphere candidates, all associated with red dwarfs, after examining a catalog of roughly 5 million stars.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

"The Port of Rotterdam is a key player in this sustainable transition but their sphere of influence is limited," says Bettina Kampman, from environmental consultancy CE Delft, which works for governments, companies and NGOs.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Self-determination in the professional sphere now transcends economic background.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

To Siebel Newsom, the critiques of her work and the federal probe are part of a broader hounding of women who enter the public sphere.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

His hands were constantly in motion, pulling tools from his belt, working controls, tinkering with his beloved Archimedes sphere.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Canada had the critical minerals needed by France, whose state-backed tech firms were taking early steps into the U.S.-dominated spheres of AI and quantum computing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Queensland authorities warned local residents that the spheres could be "potentially hazardous objects"

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

Set two years before the original film, “Alien: Earth” mostly unfolds on our home planet, which has been carved into five giant tech companies’ spheres of influence.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Cavendish suspended two lead spheres from a wire and positioned larger masses nearby.

From Science Daily May 18, 2026

Whatever had been inside the glass spheres had gone.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

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

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 Hazlitt, William

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 Rice, Cale Young

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 Waller, Alfred Rayney

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 Zeitlin, Jacob

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 Stevens, Bertram




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