SPHEROID Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

spheroid

noun

Definition of spheroid

as in oval

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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

Medium-length shags are great for people with oval face shapes.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026
Teefey rocked a faux fur jacket and tinted sunglasses with oval frames.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of oval

Noun

Decadently delicious is the Champagne Bar, where Ruinart blanc de blancs gives way to Dom Pérignon as small bites from oysters with Champagne foam to potato purée with white truffle and egg yolk arrive before you.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
The drink — with Vago elote mezcal, roasted jalapeños, honey syrup, egg whites, lemon and corn, of course — comes with a side snack of a jalapeño corn muffin.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of egg

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Obscenities, the referee’s whistle, and the thud of boots into balls—and sometimes shins—easily carry across these desolate fields.

— Vanda Mayer, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026
Seeman was banned two games for swearing at Trey McBride after Arizona's star tight end argued for a pass interference call when he was hit by a defender before the ball arrived.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of ball

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Her movie was launching her into a new sphere of opportunity — and visibility — in Hollywood, and there, a few inches away, was arguably the most famous filmmaker in the world.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
Mildred is as self-satisfied in her own sphere as Yank is in his.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of sphere

Noun

Not a crisis — yet The negative feedback loop becomes more dangerous when nominal economic growth falls to low levels, causing debt relative to the size of the economy to rise persistently, Reese said.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
What knocks him for a deadly loop is a powdered, pampered piece of work called Mildred (Elizabeth Teeter).

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of loop

Noun

But the poori remains the same, made with whole wheat flour, water and a touch of salt, gently pressed and then fried, ballooning into a gorgeous orb.

— Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
For the hunters, a massive grey orb with a ramp protruding from it is one clue.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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