globular

Example Sentences

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"He had a lot of edema, his face was very swollen, there was edema on his limbs, and a globular abdomen, like a balloon."

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

It suggests that extremely massive stars were crucial to the development of the first galaxies, simultaneously enriching globular clusters and giving rise to the earliest black holes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2025

Another was Cyttaria dawinii, a small globular parasitic fungus collected by Charles Darwin in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in South America during the HMS Beagle voyage between 1831 and 1836.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

Sporting globular dark eyes and fuzzy, caramel-colored fur, the baby ochi — a physical puppet that has been likened to a Gremlin and Baby Yoda — is quite cute.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

Just before World War I, Harlow Shapley of Missouri devised a technique for measuring the distances to the globular clusters, those lovely spherical arrays of stars which resemble a swarm of bees.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan