spheroid

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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. 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
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Noun
  • Then Larson took a piece of cardboard, tore an oval from it, and covered everything but the eyes and part of the nose.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • But that was far from the only sparkle; just check out her Bulgari High Jewelry sapphire-and-diamond pieces, including a necklace with a 50-carat oval cut cabochon sapphire.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
Noun
  • Like all tasting menus, the Journey has its ritual flourishes, some of them twee (such as the servers presenting a basket of farm eggs and an arrangement of grains just before the courses featuring those ingredients) and others quite charming.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 10 May 2026
  • After laying a single egg inside the female puts some paralyzed caterpillars and beetle larvae which the larva will eat.
    Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 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
  • But after three games in the first round of the playoffs, with the Knicks down to the Atlanta Hawks, 2–1, Brown put Towns with the ball at the three-point line, and the diminutive Brunson darted toward the center.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 10 May 2026
  • While Jaquez did not provide the eye-popping scoring of some of her teammates, the wing brought a cool effectiveness to the defensive side of the ball while tallying a pair of assists and a handful of deflections.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • The largest sphere represents all of Earth’s water.
    Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • These spheres are always overlapping.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Interior elastic loops and a mesh slip pocket keep bottles and smaller accessories secure, while the spacious 2-liter interior holds everything neatly in one place.
    Kayla Kitts, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
  • The short-loop design The ReCAM project is a strategic effort to bolster the UK’s national resource security by processing battery waste domestically rather than sending it for export.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • The file, prepared by the Pentagon, reported that teams of agents had seen various orbs and strange figures in the sky or just off the ground.
    Stefan Becket, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • The paneled glass on the orb of the Arhaus sconce looks like a flower bud, curving from an antique brass stem.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026

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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spheroid. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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