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as in ball
a more or less round body or mass
this sphere that we live on is just a tiny speck in the universe
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as in area
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
higher mathematics is a little outside my sphere
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as in galaxy
a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light
perhaps there is indeed life on planets circling spheres in galaxies far, far away
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Recent Examples of sphere
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
This homogeneity would result in a sphere of high-energy light.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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
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This fixation is a pity, since opera, like any art form, thrives on debate, disagreement, the back-and-forth of the public sphere.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
This homogeneity would result in a sphere of high-energy light.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sphere
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To score a jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball.Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 5 Jan. 2025
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But Huntley doesn’t possess Tagovailoa’s gifts as a quick-release passer (few do, in his defense), so ball movement is slower and more incremental.J.J. Bailey, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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Times staff across the metropolitan area — from Long Beach to Echo Park and beyond — received the alert, which did not appear to discriminate by distance from any particular fire.Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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The centers have become refuges for many whose lives have been upended by the unprecedented fires that continue to ravage the Los Angeles area.Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
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Related: Best telescopes: Observe stars, galaxies, nebulas, planets and more March 29: Partial eclipse of the sun — The dark shadow cone of the moon, from where a total solar eclipse can be seen, will completely miss Earth, passing approximately 180 miles (290 kilometers) above the North Pole.Joe Rao, Space.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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Kyle Chandler, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, McKenna Roberts, Rylan Jackson and Glenn Close round out the cast.Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2025
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Eggers leans heavily into both gothic and body horror in Nosferatu, but rounds that out with plenty of camp and homage to the original and its remakes.Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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The map has more than a million tiles on it and the videos certainly suggest a dynamic, ever-changing globe that is thronging with detail.Barry Collins, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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On the table next to him are a framed picture of Janet and Henry Holcomb, their beloved miniature schnauzer who passed away last year, and a globe representing Holcomb's legacy of forming many international relationships.Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024
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Children's literature, from Aesop to the Brothers Grimm and more recently Roald Dahl, has always operated in the realm of the grotesque.Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Way back a full generation ago, the original beta realm of Path of Exile ran from August 2011 to October 2013, just over two years.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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Viggo Mortensen, one of Alonso’s recurrent collaborators, stars as a father searching for his daughter in the first segment set in the Old West, which cleverly gives way to present-day South Dakota, and eventually to the Brazilian Amazon a few decades in the past.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3 winner, musician, and TV star Trixie Mattel announced Monday in a new YouTube video that she and longtime partner and Trixie Motel costar David Silver have broken up.EW.com, EW.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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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
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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 13 Jan. 2025.
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