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sphere

[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

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

In the public sphere, they are apparent in rising taxes and debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

Chondrules are small rocky spheres found inside chondrites, which are among the most primitive meteorites preserved in geological collections.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 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

Beyond Odesa, a national poll showed 80% support for Ukrainian dominating "all spheres of communication" in 2022.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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

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 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

The Sisterhood that was so sweet,     The Starry System sphered complete,     Which the mazed Orient used to greet,   The Four-and-Thirty fallen Stars glimmer and glitter at her feet.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit by Bliss Carman

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

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

Coolest quiet sphered the whole figure; not a suggestion of anything but slowest calm grace disturbed its repose.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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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