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as in balls
a more or less round body or mass
the glassblower shaped the molten mass into a globe of remarkable thinness and clarity
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as in planets
the celestial body on which we live
New Year's celebrations around the globe
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Recent Examples of globes
In a garden designed by Denler Hobart Gardens, beautiful boxwood cones and globes are paired to enhance a stone patio's charm.
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Lauren Dunec Hoang, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2026
Dancers execute choreography with four to as many as 50 hoops, creating intricate designs such as animals and globes.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Instead of speakers, the Project G had sound globes.
—Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2026
Best Actress and Best Actor in a Drama winners Michelle Pfeiffer and Tom Cruise hung out with their globes in the press room in 1990.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
At the center, students can explore maps and globes, including modern ones and some that date back hundreds of years, sourced from around the world.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Dec. 2025
Jellyfish paperweight $33 Shop Now Snow globes that stay put are paperweights.
—Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
Besides dusting, this includes wiping off the lightbulbs, removing any light globes to wash and dry them, and wiping dust from the fan’s motor and pull chain with a microfiber cloth.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
The final women’s window displays a foulard created for Bergdorf Goodman on a green backdrop with a thistle flower motif surrounded by globes indicating where Loro Piana fibers are found.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Lauren Dunec Hoang, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2026
Dancers execute choreography with four to as many as 50 hoops, creating intricate designs such as animals and globes.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Instead of speakers, the Project G had sound globes.
—Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2026
Best Actress and Best Actor in a Drama winners Michelle Pfeiffer and Tom Cruise hung out with their globes in the press room in 1990.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
At the center, students can explore maps and globes, including modern ones and some that date back hundreds of years, sourced from around the world.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Dec. 2025
Jellyfish paperweight $33 Shop Now Snow globes that stay put are paperweights.
—Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
Besides dusting, this includes wiping off the lightbulbs, removing any light globes to wash and dry them, and wiping dust from the fan’s motor and pull chain with a microfiber cloth.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
The final women’s window displays a foulard created for Bergdorf Goodman on a green backdrop with a thistle flower motif surrounded by globes indicating where Loro Piana fibers are found.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for globes
Noun
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Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Cantanucci’s property line is 72 feet away, but her hearing is such that the sound of balls bouncing and people yelping jumped the hedgerows.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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An assembly of planets in Aries moves through your twelfth house, stirring emotions behind the scenes and asking for careful tending.—
Kirah Tabourn,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Mar. 2026
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That didn’t make sense because planets don’t simply speed up or slow down without an external force.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Mar. 2026
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But arranging spheres becomes significantly more complex in higher dimensions, which allow for more arrangements and symmetries.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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The sisters' ensembles, which varied slightly from each other, were two-piece sets of crop tops and shorts or miniskirts with clusters of transparent spheres layered over nude fabric.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
16 Mar. 2026
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Virtual reality was once touted as the next big frontier for gaming, promising to bring players into immersive worlds.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Interestingly, these worlds may be tidally locked to their star, with permanent day and night sides.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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There, thousands of translucent orbs smaller than peas bob in the water column below the fishing dock.—
Marlowe Starling,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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Their crop tops and miniskirts were covered in plastic orbs, which were layered over nude fabric.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
11 Mar. 2026
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Following talks in the Indian capital, the two countries’ prime ministers inked a deal deepening rare-earths cooperation, and pledged to double bilateral trade by the end of the decade.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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Many companies that depend on these magnets have been looking for alternatives, either a rare-earths-free magnet or a motor without magnets.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Globes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/globes. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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