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Now, this is starting to play out in the consumer sphere as Meta Platforms’

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

It turns out that it’s difficult to squish a sphere into a flat rectangle without some disfigurement, but the Mercator errors have finally led to pushback.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

"You can preserve area, or you can preserve shape, or you can preserve distance and direction, but not everything at once perfectly, because otherwise you'd be back to a sphere," Cheshire said.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Unlike the nuclear sphere, where rules have been broadly understood since the Cold War, hybrid warfare escalation is "largely undefined", he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Nightbeast howled helplessly, but it was imprisoned, surrounded by a sphere of spiky vines that Thorn had weaved together.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

So we did what you’re “supposed” to do in certain socioeconomic spheres after you’ve gotten married and had a kid: We decided we would make our family an island unto itself.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

In Kanazawa, workers dressed in full-body overalls haul large blocks of ice across the factory floor, before starting on the delicate work of carving perfect spheres, cubes and rectangular blocks with cut corners.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

The material consists of porous, hollow carbon spheres containing orderly radial nanochannels, along with substantial pore space and surface area.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 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

This map was crucial in destroying the two spheres theory, and in making Copernicanism possible.

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 William Alexander Clouston

The sphered life of the race is in its subjects.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

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 William Shakespeare

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

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

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