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Recent Examples of sphere
Noun
Tucked inside that shiny, white, crystal-ball-looking sphere isn’t magic. Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 2 May 2025 The researchers discovered a small glass sphere with holes on both ends inside the body. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
Verb
Check out the velvet sphere from CB2 or Athena Calderone’s shearling spherical pillow from Crate & Barrel. Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022 Sixty-five years ago, a metal sphere the size of a basketball caught the U.S. science, military and intelligence communities by surprise. Jonathan Osborne, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for sphere
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sphere
Noun
  • But her normal ritual is to take out a club, go behind the ball, look it all over, take a couple swings.
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
  • Villa have grown more patient without the ball and are more organised.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • NTDs are a variety of conditions that are mostly found among impoverished communities in tropical areas of the world.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
  • On a day when the Kansas City attack wasn’t at its best, Miller played a key role for a back line that repeatedly came up clutch inside its penalty area.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Andor series finale In a galaxy far, far away, does any star shine brighter than Cassian Andor (Diego Luna)?
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 12 May 2025
  • Related Stories: — 'Galaxy Zoo' project needs your help classifying tens of thousands of galaxies — James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — A complete guide — What is a galaxy?
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • Picasso, Richter, Hepworth, and Agnes Martin rounded out the highlights in what felt like a confident—if cautious—play for modernist muscle.
    Daniel Cassady for ARTnews, Robb Report, 14 May 2025
  • The Dallas Mavericks won the lottery and will pick first, followed by San Antonio, Philadelphia, Charlotte and Utah to round out the first five spots.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • But the story is very different on the planet globes were made to represent.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Another character is a mascot with a [globe] head who runs out of the plane while on fire.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Until recently, China's entries in the realm of spaceflight patches often lacked the originality found in patches from the West.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 17 May 2025
  • Still, the show’s tone offers audiences something atypical in the realm of sci-fi action.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • The adaptation of Richard Osman’s novel stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie as friends at a retirement home who solve cold cases for funsies.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • Deadline confirmed from sources close to the star that the man standing on the roof was indeed Cruise.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • This theory makes definite predictions about the distribution of dark matter, but leaves great uncertainty in the rather messy physics whereby gas agglomerates and converts into stars.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • As adoption of cryptocurrency proliferates, the digital asset class has been agglomerated into one of America’s most mainstream institutions — divorce.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024

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“Sphere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sphere. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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