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Recent Examples of spheroid
The Quantum Solution Despite the planet’s relatively regular spheroid shape, the Earth’s gravitational pull is not uniform.
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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)
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—John Loeffler, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2025
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spheroid
Noun
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The most popular shape is round (26 percent), followed by oval (25 percent).—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Trees develop a rounded to oval canopy maturing to 20 to 30 feet tall and wide.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In the restaurant on the top floor, Gray Kunz’s Café Gray Deluxe, the lamb tagine is so tender there’s no guilt for skipping a chance to have dim sum and Hong Kong’s signature egg tarts.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
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She and Arthur's four other children were conceived using an anonymous egg donor and a gestational surrogate.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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This resonance dramatically stretches the planet’s orbit, turning it into a long, narrow ellipse.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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The double-ellipse frame now reveals the full architecture of the caliber DR002SR, while the watch preserves the classical proportions and architecture of the original.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Five of them will be white balls numbered 1 to 69.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
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In a first-half highlight, Phoebe Dummer stole the ball at mid-poll and outraced two defenders to score for a 4-1 lead with 27 seconds left.—
Glae Thien,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The video of the incident went viral online, popping up across different platforms and drawing varying reactions from different political spheres, garnering praise and criticism alike.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
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Because the sky looks like a gigantic sphere surrounding us, astronomers use angles to measure apparent size.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The phone's exterior frame includes a loop for a lanyard, as well as physical keys to activate push-to-talk and emergency outreach shortcuts.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
21 Feb. 2026
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Rather than hanging from a traditional metal loop soldered to the outside, the ribbon feeds directly into an internal cavity hidden between the medal's two halves.—
Eric Sullivan,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The presence of anorthosite on the moon suggested that the entire orb was once a magma ocean, or completely molten.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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The orb-weaving spider gets the gold.—
Sheryl DeVore,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spheroid. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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