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Recent Examples of spheroidThe Quantum Solution Despite the planet’s relatively regular spheroid shape, the Earth’s gravitational pull is not uniform.—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025 But when either snacking on regular bone-in rodents or a calcium-rich diet, snake cell crypts featured plenty of calcium, phosphorus, and iron spheroids.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 July 2025 The only thing that could concentrate our eyes and minds, in this reverse panopticon of seventy thousand gazes, was the football itself, that precious prolate spheroid of dimpled cowhide, which had yet to be teed up or booted into play.—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 Be massive to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium (i.e., be a spheroid under the force of its own gravity)
3.—John Loeffler, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spheroid
Then Larson took a piece of cardboard, tore an oval from it, and covered everything but the eyes and part of the nose.
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Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
But that was far from the only sparkle; just check out her Bulgari High Jewelry sapphire-and-diamond pieces, including a necklace with a 50-carat oval cut cabochon sapphire.
Like all tasting menus, the Journey has its ritual flourishes, some of them twee (such as the servers presenting a basket of farm eggs and an arrangement of grains just before the courses featuring those ingredients) and others quite charming.
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
After laying a single egg inside the female puts some paralyzed caterpillars and beetle larvae which the larva will eat.
That ellipse pattern can be seen across the door panels also, and, in another first for the marque, the graphic covers both the door panel face and the armrest area.
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Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
1 May 2026
This resonance dramatically stretches the planet’s orbit, turning it into a long, narrow ellipse.
But after three games in the first round of the playoffs, with the Knicks down to the Atlanta Hawks, 2–1, Brown put Towns with the ball at the three-point line, and the diminutive Brunson darted toward the center.
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Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
While Jaquez did not provide the eye-popping scoring of some of her teammates, the wing brought a cool effectiveness to the defensive side of the ball while tallying a pair of assists and a handful of deflections.
Interior elastic loops and a mesh slip pocket keep bottles and smaller accessories secure, while the spacious 2-liter interior holds everything neatly in one place.
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Kayla Kitts,
Travel + Leisure,
9 May 2026
The short-loop design The ReCAM project is a strategic effort to bolster the UK’s national resource security by processing battery waste domestically rather than sending it for export.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
8 May 2026