1
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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2
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
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
AFAR Media, 3 July 2025
Sarah is an assistant editor at Forbes, working with contributors to provide coverage and ignite conversations in the luxury lifestyle sphere.
—Sarah Perez, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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Noun
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
Verb
The city became one of colonial America’s five most important seaports, with trade—in rum, candles, fish, silver, furniture, and even enslaved people—catapulting Newport into a sphere of affluence.
—AFAR Media, 3 July 2025
Sarah is an assistant editor at Forbes, working with contributors to provide coverage and ignite conversations in the luxury lifestyle sphere.
—Sarah Perez, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sphere
Noun
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This is not usually not somewhere Destiny drops the ball.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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The kids were treated to a royal ball, a pajama party and other special surprises.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
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What Readers Loved The top 25 islands this year span a huge area: The northernmost winner is Bermuda (No. 10), located in the North Atlantic, while the southernmost include the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba (No. 11), Bonaire (No. 17), and Curaçao (No. 8), all just about 50 miles from Venezuela.—
Hannah Walhout,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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To give a wider perspective, Texas has the worst flood heritage in the U.S., if this is defined in terms of discharge per rainfall area.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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All month – Milky Way core: The bright central bulge of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is visible all night through August.—
John Tufts,
The Courier-Journal,
11 July 2025
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Then, some very serious things start happening in the galaxy.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Verb
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The first three rounds will take place on Sunday starting at 6 p.m., and rounds 4-20 will take place Monday starting at 11:30 a.m. Fans can watch day one coverage on MLB Network, MLB.com and ESPN.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
13 July 2025
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In response, Ukraine is beginning to produce counter-drone rifle rounds that can be fired from standard assault rifles.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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Another sequence is drawn upside down, after Mafalda finds a globe and discovers that Argentina is in the Southern Hemisphere.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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We’re fed Apollo Bar highlights like a salad rosso, a globe of radicchio segmented with chunks of blood orange, a blooming artichoke, and seasonal strawberry ice-cream cake.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
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Thoughts: The Peril Of Cognitive Offloading And Distorted Reality The realm of thought is particularly susceptible to the negative feedback loops generated by generative AI.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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And so those things just kind of put me in that realm.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
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That said, a few stars, including Nathan Fillion and Isabela Merced, have kept their relationships private.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
11 July 2025
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Unlike with Batman, which has lured major stars, the directors and producers of Superman movies have generally cast young, strapping unknowns, a certain blankness as the baseline for both Kal-El and Clark Kent.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
11 July 2025
Verb
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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 18 Jul. 2025.
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