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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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Carolyn Burt, Orange County Register, 31 Oct. 2024
Read: The tech that’s radically reimagining the public sphere
This sort of call to oblivion is not exactly new.
—John Kaag, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 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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Noun
Each beverage comes with a chocolate sphere that melts to reveal mini marshmallows and a pink bow marshmallow when placed in the drink.
—Carolyn Burt, Orange County Register, 31 Oct. 2024
Read: The tech that’s radically reimagining the public sphere
This sort of call to oblivion is not exactly new.
—John Kaag, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sphere
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Pinch off 1-inch balls of dough and roll between your palms until smooth.Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2024
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Replays clearly showed that 12-year-old Jeffrey Maier reached into the field of play to help Jeter's ball over the fence.David K. Li, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Since 2017, Gunna has done an annual giveaway in his community — formerly an unincorporated area of College Park before becoming a part of the city of South Fulton that year.Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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But this area could shift dramatically in the coming days while the system tracks through the Caribbean.Mary Gilbert, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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There are other ways of seeing what things were like back then: Astronomers can point cameras directly at galaxies that are 5 billion light-years distant and capture light that left them 5 billion years ago.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Pía will also take you along on an fascinating journey through the galaxy by identifying constellations and explaining the significance of the cosmos to the local Indigenous people.Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Apple strudel, black forest torte, pies and cookies round out the desserts.Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
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Alongside Johnson, Evans and Simmons, 69, Lucy Liu, Bonnie Hunt, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Nick Kroll and Kiernan Shipka round out the cast of the upcoming film.Jen Juneau, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Behind its rotating thirty-foot globe, retirees rode oversize tricycles and took up woodworking or the kazoo.Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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This rolling globe is designed to eliminate puffiness while reducing wrinkles at the same time.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
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Science fiction extended the imagination to this realm even before much of it was achieved in reality.Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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Behind the change, it’s believed Carlile looking to further expand her reach in other disciplines, capitalizing on CAA’s reach in the realms of film, TV and publishing.Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
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Loading your audio article From one of pop music’s biggest stars to an opera about Mount Everest and a music festival inspired by Leonard Cohen, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend.Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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How did Kornacki become famous? Kornacki became somewhat of an internet star during the 2020 presidential election with his wall-to-wall election coverage as ballot-counting lasted for days in crucial battleground states.Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 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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In those days, nearly all hemophiliacs were HIV-positive because they were infused repeatedly with blood products agglomerated from thousands of donors—none of whom were screened for HIV until the mid- to late 1980s.Bruce D. Walker, Scientific American, 1 July 2012
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“Sphere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sphere. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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