as in bead
the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass fat globules of hot wax dripping onto the table

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Recent Examples of globule Randomly dense gas globules within the nebula develop and gravitationally collapse and compress to become stars. Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2025 There, perched under glass-globule chandelier, we were welcomed with Manhattans made with Michter’s rye, a personal favorite amongst this particular crew. Brad Japhe, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025 It is absorbed by fat globules that travel through the small intestines and distribute the vitamin throughout your body. Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2024 Those vesicle-like globules that appeared when Petkowski and his colleagues put lipids into sulfuric acid actually formed in exactly the same way that vesicles form in water: a process called pearling. Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for globule
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Noun
  • Decant items like soap, laundry pods, dryer sheets, and scent-boosting beads. Cut out and save the safety information on your cleaning and laundry products before throwing out the plastic containers.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2025
  • As Moroney finished her set, the fans already seated on blankets or craning their necks to see the stage were also the ones braving the humidity—marking the moment with the last sip of their first tall boy and the first beads of sweat breaking through the day’s heat.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Then Domokos and the chief engineer of the model spotted a glob of stray glue clinging to one of its vertices.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2025
  • There were globs of stuff coming out of me, like sheets of it.
    Essence, Essence, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The water droplet did disperse quickly and evenly, though, suggesting that the material is still very moisture-wicking—a good quality for hot sleepers.
    Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2025
  • This typically happens when infected respiratory droplets are released into the air when a sick person talks, sings, sneezes or coughs.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 June 2025
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  • With companies going where liquidity is abundant, a steady drip of firms being taken private, and too few initial public offerings coming along to replace them, pressure is mounting to reverse the slow but inexorable shrinking of London’s historic trading venue.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 3 July 2025
  • Leaner cuts also reduce fat drips and flame flare-ups, which can contribute to carcinogen formation.
    Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 3 July 2025

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“Globule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/globule. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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