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globe

[glohb] / gloʊb /


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Across the globe, military bases are being targeted as a soft underbelly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He was driven to build the Sunflower Sound System after performing in clubs around the globe, conversing with the people who built the systems he was using and taking notes about their designs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

One challenge with this method is that the laser tracking stations are not evenly distributed around the globe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The heat released into the atmosphere by the very warm seas in the eastern tropical Pacific has weather impacts that ripple across the globe.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

He heard the familiar puttering of an old propeller, recognizing for an instant the Universal logo above him, the giant globe being encircled by a small airplane.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

She’s tried to earn extra cash by selling used items like Disney snow globes and ’90s-era Tommy Hilfiger clothing on eBay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

And it came with added significance as she became the first man or woman in the history of the alpine skiing World Cup to win more than eight globes in a single event.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

Half a world away, Japanese scientists are using shining golden globes to search for the same answers.

From BBC ● May 12, 2025

Available in a variety of forms, from audacious “dinner plate”-size blooms to petite globes of tightly packed petals and everything in between, it’s no wonder dahlias are popular with flower farmers and home gardeners alike.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

His fingers slowly curl around the globes of his knees.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Art Deco touches inform outdoor marquees, globed chandeliers, and vintage Audubon wallpaper is glinting with pink birds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

The Peter Kiewit Foundation no longer is funding the maintenance of Abbott Drive, which includes the so-called String of Pearls - globed lights that line a stretch of the thoroughfare.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2019

Donors have long paid for the so-called String of Pearls entrance, which features globed lights that line a stretch of Abbott Drive.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2018

A branch bounces, and out pops a Titi monkey with black, globed eyes and a pewter-colored beard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soft, salty bread and white cheese, slices of spiced meat, and quarters of some big, globed fruit that tasted of sugared rain.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

I seemed conscious only of a shaft of light, as it were, traversing the darkness and globing itself in a steady disc of radiance on a lonely door.

From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes




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