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adjective

as in spherical

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verb

past tense of dome
as in protruded

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Recent Examples of domed
Adjective
The domed theater on Winchester Boulevard, which opened in 1964, has been shuttered since 2014. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026 The domed Actua 360 screen still looks striking, and reaches up to 3,000 nits of adaptive brightness. — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026 Doing so helps prevent soggy bottoms and intensifies the domed top, made possible by baking in alternating cups. — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2026 According to his post on X sharing the image, Menon used an iPhone to capture the photo from the space station's cupola, a domed structure built by the European Space Agency that features six circumferential windows and central nadir viewing window. — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026 There are two massive concrete planters, a domed arboretum, and a ground installation that includes boulders and river rocks. — Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 1 Aug. 2026 At the end of the street is the imposing Gringotts bank with its colossal marble columns and gleaming chandeliers hanging down from a domed ceiling. — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 The pending move to a domed stadium doesn’t thrill all fans, but Chiefs president Mark Donovan said playing indoors doesn’t guarantee games will be played on turf. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2026 The Dreamers’ application says the money would be used to build a 45,000-seat domed stadium capable of hosting Major League games as well as concerts and youth and collegiate sports tournaments. — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for domed
  1. spherical
  2. protruded
  3. globular
  4. elongated
  5. rounded
  6. jutted
  7. bulbous
  8. projected
Adjective
  • First, a planet had to be in hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning that its gravity has pulled it into a spherical shape.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Sound waves cause air inside the spherical or bell-shaped structures to oscillate, pulling in diffuse airflow and expelling it as a concentrated, high-velocity jet.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of spherical
Verb
  • In several looks, the hips protruded impressively outward, but the silhouette appeared more subtle and somewhat suitable for everyday wear in the label’s delicate camisole tops.
    — Kelly Niesen, Glamour, 24 July 2026
  • The skinny braids wrapped the bottom of the bun, while the thicker braids dressed the top, forming a cylinder shape that protruded from the crown of her head.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
Definition of protruded
Adjective
  • The Hubble Space Telescope captured this twinkling image of NGC 6723, or the Chandelier Cluster, a globular star cluster located 27,000 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The pieces are abstract but appear to show featureless human figures sitting atop globular, cloud-like shapes that float in the air.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
Definition of globular
Verb
  • And some 5,000 miles away, at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in the UK, there’s yet another version — this one elongated and olive-shaped, with its threads of color more spaced apart.
    — Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In 1963, an umpire’s foul call on Willie McCovey’s towering ninth-inning fly ball elongated the game into a 16-inning marathon.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of elongated
Adjective
  • Physicists now know that a collision between two oxygen nuclei generates a more rounded particle pattern, while crashing neon nuclei together creates a pattern more reminiscent of a bowling pin.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Admittedly, his rounded route in his final act last season for Chicago deserves all the rotten cabbage.
    — Jess Bryant, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of rounded
Verb
  • Its three-dimensional skirt jutted out from the hips, while giant slits put Theron’s legs on full display.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 July 2026
  • Above, metal spigots jutted out from overhead — one in the center of the ceiling, one on each side, the trio repeating every 10 feet as the tunnel stretched out ahead.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
Definition of jutted
Adjective
  • The buds are fairly typical, with a bulbous driver housing and an extended stem that sits outside the ear.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The bulbous growths on the ends of the mycelia burst, releasing even more spores into the air to infect even more unsuspecting ants.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of bulbous
Verb
  • In February, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the new requirements and other factors would push SNAP enrollment down over the next decade, falling below 34 million by 2036.
    — Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Beyond the technology issues, the SSA is projected to exhaust its retirement trust fund in less than a decade, which could require benefit cuts to millions of Americans.
    — Hugh Son, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of projected

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