spherical

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Its plans at the time were well-documented, with the Walt Disney Co. initially giving Westcot, as it was to be called, a spherical answer to the Florida park’s Spaceship Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

The goal: hit all seven players on the opposing team using perfectly spherical snowballs made with a special machine, or capture their flag.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Instead of looking directly for faint starlight, they searched for tight groupings of globular clusters, which are dense, spherical collections of stars that typically orbit galaxies.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

It is impossible to draw a flat, rectangular map of the spherical Earth without distortions.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

A stationary source of sound or light emits a set of spherical waves.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan