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sphere

[sfeer] / sfɪər /




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Robinson said Gamble had "impeccable and unquestionable credentials in the safeguarding sphere".

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

“I think more data is incredible,” Barnes-Lentz said, cheering on Tolo’s entry into the male-dominated sphere of longevity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

A surrounding Dyson sphere, however, could have an effective temperature as low as 50K, around two orders of magnitude colder.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 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

He believed in the Aristotelian universe; the universe was contained within a giant sphere.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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

His goal, ultimately, is to bring together disparate groups of people from different spheres in a space everyone will feel comfortable in.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 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

The zodiac of the fixed stars is the outermost visible sphere, with three invisible spheres beyond.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Coolest quiet sphered the whole figure; not a suggestion of anything but slowest calm grace disturbed its repose.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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 Rice, Cale Young

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

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 Hardy, Thomas

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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