spheres 1 of 2

noun

plural of sphere
1
as in balls
a more or less round body or mass this sphere that we live on is just a tiny speck in the universe

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2
as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence higher mathematics is a little outside my sphere

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as in galaxies
a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light perhaps there is indeed life on planets circling spheres in galaxies far, far away

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sphere
as in rounds

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Recent Examples of spheres
Noun
In this procedure, uranium-containing material is formed into tiny spheres by dipping them into a hot silicone-oil bath. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026 Wagyu beef and lamb koobideh are formed into bite-size, plump spheres doused in a sweet tomato and sumac glaze. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Growers commonly use sticky traps, often tapes or red spheres that resemble ripening apples, along with chemical or food-based lures, to attract adult flies. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026 Or rather, an emotional problem that was managed through food and, consequently, a sense of the violence directed at obese bodies and all that this entails in various spheres. — Roberto Prieto, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026 Perfect circles, balls, spheres adrift somewhere in her imagination. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026 The number of exotic spheres can also be calculated for all other dimensions, and this number can sometimes be very large. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026 Other doctrines like predestination (where some people are chosen for salvation and others are damned) have further broken the world into separate spheres. — Casper Ter Kuile, Vox, 16 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spheres
  1. balls
  2. areas
  3. galaxies
  4. rounds
  5. globes
  6. realms
  7. stars
  8. domains
Noun
  • Lyons recalled how Meyer and Davis transformed her own cantankerous vision — mushrooms beside saddles, faucets beside disco balls, moldings beside dog doors — into a cohesive design language.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Onigiri Gorichan serves delicate Koshihikari rice balls stuffed with salmon flakes, pickled plums or Spam and egg.
    — Senior Food Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of balls
Noun
  • Cult members lived in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch that Mackenzie divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The bar for engaging in major conflicts outside the core strategic areas of Europe and East Asia should be quite high.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of areas
Noun
  • The team was also able to roughly estimate the mass of this feeding cosmic titan, which sits at the heart of the Perseus Cluster, a massive collection of thousands of galaxies.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Detecting and measuring FRBs and their host galaxies can help solve the puzzle, Nanayakkara says.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of galaxies
Verb
  • Brewers third baseman David Hamilton rounds the bases after hitting a home run in the ninth inning.
    — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Wildlife advocates are coordinating care, mapping turtles’ origins through genetics and attempting releases, while a federal funding bill rounds its way through committees.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of rounds
Noun
  • 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
Definition of globes
Noun
  • These bog bodies tell stories of a time when humans were sacrificed to the gods in bogs, as otherworldly margins between the human and divine realms, or when social outcasts met a cruel, violent end for failing to conform to societal standards.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Dante populated his realms of Hell and Purgatory with figures, monsters and moral frameworks borrowed directly from classical Greek and Roman myths.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • Creators Drop The Pranks And Get Serious MIPCOM was a conduit for the developing creator economy this year, with the focus switching to those YouTube and digital stars who are actually building businesses.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • For stellar scientists, the colors of stars have always been indicative of their temperatures.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of stars
Noun
  • These technologies could support radicalization, recruitment and fundraising while helping groups conduct complex attacks across multiple domains.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The contest of networks will be nearly global, waged in multiple domains, with huge stakes riding on the outcome.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
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“Spheres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spheres. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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