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[sfeer] / sfɪər /




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Robinson said Gamble had "impeccable and unquestionable credentials in the safeguarding sphere".

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Moscow had resisted that arrangement for more than a decade, wary of China’s expanding footprint in territory it has long considered its sphere of influence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

A surrounding Dyson sphere, however, could have an effective temperature as low as 50K, around two orders of magnitude colder.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

To Siebel Newsom, the critiques of her work and the federal probe are part of a broader hounding of women who enter the public sphere.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Jeremy lifted the sphere out of the cotton and smiled.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Queensland authorities warned local residents that the spheres could be "potentially hazardous objects"

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

His goal, ultimately, is to bring together disparate groups of people from different spheres in a space everyone will feel comfortable in.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Cavendish suspended two lead spheres from a wire and positioned larger masses nearby.

From Science Daily May 18, 2026

The German defence industry has locked onto that trend, as illustrated by the rise of arms maker Rheinmetall in recent years, with the group recently pushing into the naval and dronemaking spheres.

From Barron's May 16, 2026

Finally, where was the centre of gravity of the conjoined spheres of earth and water?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Some of the Parrot’s recitals have other tales sphered within them, so to say—a plan which must be familiar to all readers of the Arabian Nights.

From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by Clouston, William Alexander

His thoughts are sphered and crystalline; his style “prouder than when blue Iris bends;” his spirit fiery, impatient, wayward, indefatigable.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

Now Amidon's eyes sought hers again, and held there; and the twin worlds, sphered in some slowly-turning orbit, seemed swinging in their native space.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson

Yet saw he something in the lives    Of those who'd ceased to live That sphered them with a majesty    Which living failed to give.

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

I stick my head into the workshop and say hello to Ben Morling, founder and MD of both branches, who got into the Segway business after some success with a sphering, or zorbing, company.

From The Guardian Aug. 31, 2015

Greater than the sphering sea,  For it holds the sea and land; Seed of all ideas to be  Down its current borne like sand.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram




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