hemisphere

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Recent Examples of hemisphere The visual narrative highlights how malbec once commanded attention in France, nearly vanished after phylloxera, then reemerged in a new hemisphere. Rachel King, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025 People should join the nearest group to them or one of the more global groups in each hemisphere. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2025 Last April, armed gangs set fire to the premises of the country’s oldest newspaper and the hemisphere’s oldest French-language daily, Le Nouvelliste. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025 Accordingly, America's overwhelming imperative is to devote our limited resources—at least those deployed outside our own hemisphere—to containing and repelling China. Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hemisphere
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Noun
  • Mine were located on meridians related to the elements of earth and space, which I was told signal a general imbalance between those elements in my life.
    Kayla Blanton, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2025
  • According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, moonrise for the Indianapolis area will happen by roughly 5:26 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, crossing the meridian at 12:30 a.m. before setting at 8:36 a.m. Monday.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • So does a semicircle with a radius of 1 (and an area of π/2, or approximately 1.57).
    Richard Green, Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Corona Borealis, a delicate semicircle of seven stars, lies between them.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2025

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“Hemisphere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hemisphere. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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