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sphere

[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

As investment in AI companies grows, it is likely more names from this sphere appear on shirts.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

“I understand the sphere of these people and the motivations and I’ve been to a lot of these amazing houses,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

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

The glow from the sphere showed walls of hard-packed earth.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Public works such as the High Line park over former rail lines and Brooklyn Bridge Park merged the public and private spheres.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Crews in protective suits were reportedly seen placing the spheres in hazmat barrels under police guard, over concerns they may contain hazardous substances.

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

We were like three separate spheres jittering through space, not touching, not talking, for fear of knocking our little red capsule off course, having it crash, ignite, burst into flame.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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 Thomas Hardy

The Sisterhood that was so sweet,     The Starry System sphered complete,     Which the mazed Orient used to greet,   The Four-and-Thirty fallen Stars glimmer and glitter at her feet.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit by Bliss Carman

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

The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds

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 H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw

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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