spheroid

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Recent Examples of spheroid After a week of exposure, the scientists separated the spheroids into individual cells to analyze gene expression and to measure fat accumulation. Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025 The 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 See All Example Sentences for spheroid
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Noun
  • Each one is an oval organ, smooth and firm, roughly the size of a small egg.
    Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • There's also Meta Glasses by Kylie, a slim oval frame designed in collaboration with model Kylie Jenner that unlocks her voice for AI assistance, for $100 more.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Female Mexican fruit flies lay thousands of eggs in their lifetime.
    Kori McNair, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Hens start laying between 18 and 22 weeks old and produce four to six eggs a week from productive breeds, with a noticeable dip in winter.
    Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 1 May 2026
  • This resonance dramatically stretches the planet’s orbit, turning it into a long, narrow ellipse.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Each ticket costs $5, and players may pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 24 (the gold Mega Ball) — or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • During a loose-ball scramble, Thomas struck Fever superstar Caitlin Clark in the throat with her fist.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • His goal, ultimately, is to bring together disparate groups of people from different spheres in a space everyone will feel comfortable in.
    Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • According to his Instagram, the younger Zayas also works in the creative sphere as a theatre director.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Many of the residents moving to One, Two and Three Lights, inside the downtown loop around the Power & Light District, are relocating from outside Kansas City — often more than 75%, according to developer Cordish’s data.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026
  • This connection between measurement and personalized learning then becomes a kind of positive feedback loop, where each feeds into the other.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • The items and blueprints for the items can be found in shops, claw machines, the flower basket crafting mission, the box of fortune, and the orb roll challenge.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Another was a shining red orb of a hue the observer had never seen before.
    Collin Binkley, Fortune, 15 June 2026

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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spheroid. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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