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[sfeer] / sfɪər /




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While European liquidity broadly follows American trends, there is one sphere in which the liquidity cycle differs markedly: China, which is also travelling in the opposite direction, according to Howell.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

So, seeing that play out in the public sphere only validates that concern.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The Lockers were the first group of dancers to travel outside of the “Soul Train” sphere to be seen on television as a singular act.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Shahin Ahmed said his son was "a unique and happy personality, a sphere of joy" in a tribute after his death on Tuesday evening.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Today he’d removed it from the control panel and shut down Festus the figurehead for maintenance—something about rewiring his processor for a motor-control upgrade with the sphere, whatever the heck that meant.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

But for the most part, the tension was at least somewhat manageable, and both carried on in their own spheres.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

Canada had the critical minerals needed by France, whose state-backed tech firms were taking early steps into the U.S.-dominated spheres of AI and quantum computing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

There has been some speculation online that the spheres are propellant tanks for spacecraft, and so could contain residual amounts of a highly flammable or reactive substance.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

By testing three YIG spheres with different levels of purity, the researchers found a clear pattern.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 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

She seemed sphered in beauty, like the Soul of Morning in some painter's fantasy, with all great stars blossoming out in floral life about her, colorless, yet brilliant in shape and light.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various

Last night, sphered in thy shining, A Circe—mystic destinies divining; To-day but as a feather Torn from a seraph's wing in sinful weather, Down-drifting from the portals Of Paradise, unto the land of mortals.

From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice

Yea, for the sake of the wild western wind The sphered spirit scorns her flame-built throne, Because of primroses, time out of mind, The Lonely turns away from the Alone.

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various

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 Jacob Zeitlin

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 Alfred Rayney Waller

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 Bertram Stevens




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