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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
The unique course has four holes inside the oval of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Megan duBois,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
There, an understated reception area — walls lined by photos that tell the story of the stadium — will serve as the entryway to a massive indoor space with a 360-degree bar that mimics the oval of the Rose Bowl itself.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
The offerings there lean British tavern style, with items like a shatteringly crisp fish and chips, Irish soda bread, and curry on the lunch menu, while breakfast has those farm-fresh eggs in various preparations, including a sandwich with a slice of Taylor Ham, a New Jersey specialty.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
First was the Pink Lady (gin, apple brandy, lemon, grenadine, egg white) printed in 1913 and named for a Broadway musical comedy of same name.
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.
So, too, has ball progression from their initial build-up phase after last summer’s sale of Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid, as well as a lack of patterns of play in the final third.
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Carl Anka,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
For one thing, that extra speed—plus a spike in spin, which has allowed pitchers to throw harder while also making the ball swerve, dive, and kick—has given pitchers an even greater advantage over batters than before.
The sphere at the top of the node bobs in the water, with the attached tube oscillating water within it, spinning turbines inside the structure that generate electricity.
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Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
14 May 2026
The advent of digital media outlets is transforming the way communication is being conducted in all spheres of life, including science communication.
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Prodromos Yannas,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 May 2026
Palstave axes were designed with a side loop to be securely attached to a wooden handle.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
He can’t be named here without risking his loops at the club, but trust that his local knowledge includes which Delaware County bartenders reliably tally a light check and how to navigate every inch of Aronimink.
His newest product is a crystal orb that accommodates cigars up to a 74-ring gauge.
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Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
15 May 2026
Such stars are the key quarry that JWST was designed for—stellar orbs composed of the pristine, primordial hydrogen and helium gas that was summoned into being by the big bang.