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Recent Examples of spheroidThe 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
Wyeth modeled the office on the oval Blue Room in the main building, which now has a view south to the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial.
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Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
Lee Sunday Evans once again directs, much of the original ensemble (including a mini-orchestra) has returned, and Krit Robinson’s wooden oval is back, in slightly larger form.
Morgenthaler’s version—amaretto and lemon, punched up with a pour of high-proof bourbon, and smoothed out with an egg white—utterly transforms the drink.
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Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
25 Oct. 2025
Simply melt the chocolate in the microwave; then whisk in sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla, and salt.
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.
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Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
5 Oct. 2025
There is also the matter of landing accuracy, typically described as a landing ellipse, or the elliptical area on a planetary surface that defines the range of possible touchdown spots for a spacecraft.
Messi picked up the ball from his compatriot Rodrigo De Paul in midfield and burst toward the backpedaling Nashville back line before slipping the ball outside to Luis Suárez.
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The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
He’s raved about Ballard and his work ethic/overall improvement since spring ball.
Charged particles originating from the corona surge into the gap but are soon snared by two great magnetic loops—the Van Allen Radiation Belts—that usually keep them from Earth’s surface.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
That's how solar rain forms in loops that are suddenly heated, like during flares.
These states’ extensive coastlines may explain part of the clustering, but the types of objects described—ranging from glowing orbs to submerged shapes that move at high speed—suggest something far more unusual.
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Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
In one image, a flash appears in a mirror as a strange orb, reminding the viewer of the photographer’s presence.
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