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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spheroid
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The pendant features an oval setting with a diamond bow supporting a baroque natural pearl drop.—
Elle Meier,
InStyle,
9 Jan. 2026
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Ricotta gnocchi takes after the Parisian model, finished in a pan until each piece has a deep-brown oval sear, arriving simply sauced in lemon and fragrant black pepper under a blanket of Parmesan.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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While recipes vary, most versions include chicken (often breast or thigh meat), egg or wheat noodles, carrots, celery, onions and herbs such as parsley or thyme.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Krejci said the couple now produces about 65% of their total food needs on their homestead, including nearly all of their produce, eggs, poultry, venison and maple syrup.—
Kelly McGreal,
FOXNews.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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In our seminar, Bolin later showed a visualization of 3I/ATLAS's orbit around the galaxy — no neat ellipse, but rather a looping, spiraling path distorted by encounters with gas clouds, spiral arms and dark matter.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
2 Dec. 2025
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Since the moon’s orbit around the Earth is not a perfect circle but rather an ellipse or oval, the moon’s distance from Earth can vary in its orbit, but not all that much.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
5 Oct. 2025
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Los Angeles appeared to be in charge after getting a stop on defense giving Stafford the ball back.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Neither team shot the ball well from beyond the arc as Orlando (4 for 29 from 3) and Philadelphia (4 for 28) combined to shoot 8 for 57 (14%) from distance.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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The technology, like many in the policing sphere, is more reactive than proactive, Piza said.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
12 Jan. 2026
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In the political sphere—an arena that’s increasingly entangled with social media—figures such as Elon Musk decry empathy as an emasculating plague.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Newer facilities rely on closed-loop cooling systems that recirculate cooling liquids instead of evaporating water.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
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While no definitive plans are in place, Rosales described long-term ambitions to further extend the trail to the Hunt Branch Library and potentially with other city trail loops.—
Lou Ponsi,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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Revel in the rare winter sunshine by scuba diving, cycling, or celebrating the setting orange orb on Mallory Square.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Outside,
4 Jan. 2026
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The wintry orb will be one of the three closest moons to Earth this year, with the cold moon in December expected to be the closest, according to Petro.—
Lily Hautau,
CNN Money,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spheroid. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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