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sphere

[sfeer] / sfɪər /




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For empathy not to misfire in the policy sphere, he contends, we need a “cultural theory of mind,” where “one culture puts itself in the mind of another culture.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

A Dyson sphere would dramatically alter where a star appears on that chart.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

"The Port of Rotterdam is a key player in this sustainable transition but their sphere of influence is limited," says Bettina Kampman, from environmental consultancy CE Delft, which works for governments, companies and NGOs.

From BBC Jul. 9, 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

She reached into the folds of her cloak and brought out the golden sphere.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

Beijing appears to aim "to offer economic incentives while monitoring North Korea to ensure it does not act against Beijing's interests in the diplomatic and military spheres", Hong said.

From Barron's Jun. 9, 2026

Her passion for storytelling extends beyond the spheres of journalism and history.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2026

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

From Science Daily May 18, 2026

Round spheres that resemble birdcages rise and descend while one or more aerialists move from within the sphere to without, standing on the top or hanging from the bars on the bottom.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

His Imagination, “nigh sphered in Heaven,” claimed kindred only with what he saw from that height, and could raise to the same elevation with itself.

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

That so august a spirit, sphered so fair, Should from the starry sessions of his peers, Decline to quench so bright a brilliancy In hell’s sick spume.

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)

Now crack thy lungs and split thy brazen pipe; Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon.

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William

His imagination, "nigh sphered in Heaven," claimed kindred only with what he saw from that height, and could raise to the same elevation with itself.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

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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