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

Other noteworthy pieces included dresses with spherical birdcage-inspired silhouettes, while other models wore transparent vest tops with their dresses gathered around their waists.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

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

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

That is partly the result of viewing the spherical Earth on a flat map…

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Within weeks, it is thought, the flung material had reassembled itself into a single clump, and within a year it had formed into the spherical rock that companions us yet.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson