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globes

noun

plural of globe

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 He was known for his love of globes, often photographed posing with them, according to The Post. — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026 With the fan and light turned off, check for loose globes, shades, bulbs, finials, or other decorative pieces. — Tricia Goss, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2026 Most globes take between a few weeks and a few months to make, and each is a work of art, customized for clients with family histories, past travels, migration routes, and personalized themes. — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 Seeing the world through old maps The Osher Map Library, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century. — David Morgan, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 In another Amsterdam photo, a pair of identical world globes, recalling Ghirri’s passion for cartography and atlases, rest on matching supports to conjure that oldest of surrealist tropes, a pair of staring eyes. — James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026 The Ebern Designs Rhenn flush mount comes with three milky glass globes that give you plenty of light without blinding you. — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026 Luke Evans paid tribute to Tom of Finland with his all-leather Palomo Spain look with jacket, trousers and globes in burgundy. — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026 There is Fedora, a city that preserves in glass globes models of the city that might have been, making enduring art of futures that were possible once but are possible no longer. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Wickham raised his fifty off 123 balls with a single against off-spinner Nayeem Hasan.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
There are a lot of balls in the air at once, even as Americans are desperate for relief right now.

— Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 Nov. 2026

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Noun

The Celestron Travel Scope 70 is a great entry-level telescope that delivers better views of the moon, planets and some deep-sky objects.

— Harry Bennett, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2026
These are young stars, and two of them have massive planets that are still warm from their gravitational collapse, allowing them to have been imaged previously.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of planets

Noun

More hours spent with screens close to our faces and fewer hours in natural light are changing the shape of our eyeballs, elongating the spheres from front to back.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Other new displays include Lightwave, an immersive tunnel of moving and fixed chrome spheres; Cosmic Garden, a glowing hillside inspired by meditative sand gardens; and Fairy Forest, featuring glowing orbs and illuminated mushrooms.

— Rick West, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of spheres

Noun

The Cat and the kids dive into their cardboard boxes to find the misplaced Go-Backer and discover vast, amazing worlds informed by their interests and imaginations.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
But Foley was ready for a change and said the move reflects a desire to follow his curiosity and explore new ways of bringing creative and commercial worlds together.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of worlds

Noun

Other new displays include Lightwave, an immersive tunnel of moving and fixed chrome spheres; Cosmic Garden, a glowing hillside inspired by meditative sand gardens; and Fairy Forest, featuring glowing orbs and illuminated mushrooms.

— Rick West, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
Marginal illustrations are found in the reproduction of The Antiquities of the Jews, including a portrait of its author, Josephus, and a depiction of two orbs representing the creation of heaven and earth.

— Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of orbs

Noun

David McNew/Getty Images Several developments combined to shift rare-earths production from monazite to bastnaesite.

— Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
Keith Bradsher, who has covered the rare-earths industry since 2009, reported from Beijing and Shanghai.

— Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2026

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