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Recent Examples of spheroid
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.
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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)
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—John Loeffler, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2025
In situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies NASA.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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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
In situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies NASA.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spheroid
Noun
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Values, like the cars themselves, are all over the map, and today an early oval-window car can ascend well above $150,000 in concours condition, with a car in good condition worth $35,000 or more.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
12 Sep. 2025
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Her mom with her creamy complexion, her oval face, the beauty mark next to her ear, and the slight hunch in her shoulders that nobody can see but me.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As the researchers discovered, Iberian harvester queens’ eggs develop differently depending on whether the queen needs mates to produce future Iberian harvester ant queens, or a hybrid workforce that makes up 99% of the colony.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Yes, the high-profile egg inflation has moderated.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That orbit in general is an ellipse, an oval shape.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
25 July 2025
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The ellipse enclosing these locations is called an error ellipse.—
Toshi Hirabayashi,
Space.com,
23 July 2025
Noun
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Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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And when the second half started, Gay couldn’t turn a solid Commanders drive into three more points, banging the ball off the right goal post.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Perfume houses might use microencapsulation, putting fragrance oils inside teeny spheres that break down slowly to release the notes over time.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The planet sitting below was dramatically oversimplified — just a smooth sphere with no geography or oceans.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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My husband has been muttering in a loop about tuition, books, food, and transportation to and from home to campus.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
15 Sep. 2025
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The western United States is running drier than average during a 30-year drought, which can create a feedback loop of higher temperatures and lower precipitation.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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According to Burlison, the video shows a high-speed object—presumably the missile—hitting the orb, which then deforms, tumbles, and sheds smaller fragments, one barely visible.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The orb continued on its trajectory after the strike.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spheroid. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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