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Recent Examples of sphere
Noun
This is the opportune moment to make beneficial changes to your domestic sphere. USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025 Then came Prohibition and bootlegging, which catapulted them into new spheres of social and political influence. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
Check out the velvet sphere from CB2 or Athena Calderone’s shearling spherical pillow from Crate & Barrel. Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022 Sixty-five years ago, a metal sphere the size of a basketball caught the U.S. science, military and intelligence communities by surprise. Jonathan Osborne, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for sphere
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sphere
Noun
  • The Spartans advanced all the way to the Glory’s 8-yard line and spiked the ball with 2 seconds left.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Tyla is on a roll—and so seems to be the ball of yarn that comprised her dress for Billboard’s Women in Music event yesterday evening.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Pep Guardiola needs fresh creativity in the attacking midfield area and Wirtz would have been perfect for this role.
    Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Even better, the alfresco dining area is shaded by an orchard, next to an herb garden.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Of the galaxies identified, the team said 58% are elliptical dwarf galaxies and 42% are irregular dwarf galaxies.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Clancy Brown, Jimmi Simpson, Evelyn Giovine and Brandon Micheal Hall round out the cast of the 110-minute biographical drama.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Robertson rounded out his natural hat trick before the intermission on a two-man advantage.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One study found globe flattening in about 16% of astronauts post-flight.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Obviously the scale is not going to be huge relative to the whole globe, but that is one consideration, and certainly would become a factor if regenerative is adopted across agriculture more broadly.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Mercury in Pisces is a completely different vibe — one that pulls us away from the hard facts and into the realms of intuition, imagination and spirituality.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • That's being challenged now in so many ways—in the realm of AI and the prevalence of misinformation as a weapon, whether on social media or in politics and elsewhere.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Motocross star Haiden Deegan was arrested for street racing and stunt driving in Florida.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Co-created with star Stephen Graham, the four-part series uses a daring one-shot for each episode to call attention to widespread reports of young boys involved in knife crimes.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This theory makes definite predictions about the distribution of dark matter, but leaves great uncertainty in the rather messy physics whereby gas agglomerates and converts into stars.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • As adoption of cryptocurrency proliferates, the digital asset class has been agglomerated into one of America’s most mainstream institutions — divorce.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024

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“Sphere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sphere. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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