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hemisphere

[hem-i-sfeer] / ˈhɛm ɪˌsfɪər /
NOUN
half
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The wiser course is to work with his government to check Chinese influence in the hemisphere and to build, carefully and gingerly, on the shared interest in a stable Venezuela.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“The market is grappling with the idea that we’re about to go through a large part of the Northern hemisphere winter with little Persian Gulf LNG supply,” analysts at ING say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

As the eruption eventually begins to weaken, sulphur dioxide high in the atmosphere forms sunlight-reflecting sulfate aerosols that spread around the northern hemisphere to influence the world’s climate for several years.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Sydney and Perth were in the running but Melbourne is regarded as the nation's sports capital and the MCG is the biggest stadium in the southern hemisphere.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Indians had expanded their Neolithic revolutions to create a panoply of diverse civilizations across the hemisphere.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A hotter southern mantle could indicate that Mars once had a magnetic field strong enough to produce differences in magnetism between the two hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Together, the two observing sites greatly expand the geographic reach of the survey and allow SDSS-V to examine the sky from both hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

To investigate this connection, the team studied a large multicenter group consisting of fifty patients and one hundred brain hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Without material from the far side, they could not directly test whether solar wind implantation differed systematically between the two hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

Absent the extinctions, the encounter between Europe and the Americas might have been equally deadly for both sides—a world in which both hemispheres experienced catastrophic depopulation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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