HEMISPHERES Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

hemispheres

noun

plural of hemisphere

as in semicircles

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The split also means immigrants in some parts of the country are getting bail hearings while those in other places, including Texas and Louisiana, face additional hurdles to seek release.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
Hank Greenberg entered the Army after winning his second MVP and lost three full years and parts of two others to war.

— Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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Their traditions inspired the property’s spa treatments and even its placement atop heilige Linien—sacred meridians said to hold special power.

— Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026
The first is an 18-karat pink-gold model on an Arroyo gray calf leather strap with a silvery dial in a grid-style globe pattern, where the meridians and parallels are engraved and polished.

— Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026

Definition of meridians

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Together, these features provide dedicated cleaning support for bottles, pump components, and small accessories that can be difficult to address with a bottle brush alone.

— Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Pump360™ for Irregular Pump Parts Breast pump components create a different challenge.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of components

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Analyst Gavin Parsons said that Lockheed Martin is set to see growth across several business segments, setting the company up to potentially double-digit upside to earnings per share consensus estimates in 2028.

— Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026
Helping understand mutations in DNA’s vast ‘non-coding’ segments DNA provides the recipe for the proteins a living cell can make.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of segments

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The brightly colored insects, native to Australia, are small — just fractions of an inch long — with colors that pop under a microscope.

— Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
Specifically, is the set of all rational numbers, meaning those expressible as fractions, such as 1, or , or .

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026

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