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as in ball
a more or less round body or mass
this sphere that we live on is just a tiny speck in the universe
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as in area
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
higher mathematics is a little outside my sphere
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as in galaxy
a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light
perhaps there is indeed life on planets circling spheres in galaxies far, far away
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Recent Examples of sphere
Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
In the aftermath, everyone from their fellow Summer House castmates to other Bravo stars to celebrities outside the reality TV sphere weighed in on the drama, picking sides and commenting on the new relationship.
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Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 June 2026
Emma Balter,
Chron,
10 Oct. 2022
And young people are innovating outside that sphere as well, including Southern-gothic singer-songwriter Ethel Cain and art-rockers Geese.
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Vulture,
6 June 2022
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Butter yellow French tips cut away to reveal sheer spheres of apricot jam.
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Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
In the aftermath, everyone from their fellow Summer House castmates to other Bravo stars to celebrities outside the reality TV sphere weighed in on the drama, picking sides and commenting on the new relationship.
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Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 June 2026
Verb
Starbucks' pumpkin spice latte came out in 2003, and by the late 2000s, the fall trend had trickled from the novelty coffee drinks sphere into the beer world.
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Emma Balter,
Chron,
10 Oct. 2022
And young people are innovating outside that sphere as well, including Southern-gothic singer-songwriter Ethel Cain and art-rockers Geese.
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Vulture,
6 June 2022
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Unlike on New Year's Eve, the ball won't drop just once, but eight times for the first time ever to mark when the clock strikes midnight in each American time zone, according to the America250 website.
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Lasko’s teammate, Devin Taylor, was able to get up and field the rolling ball that split the two defenders, but Lasko stayed on the ground in what was a pretty ugly crash.
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Police are asking people to avoid the area if possible.
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Specifically targeting underserved areas, the parks will be at the San Joaquin River Parkway, Dust Bowl Camp, and Feather River Park in Yuba County.
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With this capability, Rubin can reveal details of the cosmos across an enormous range of scales, from distant galaxies, to individual stars, to the wispy clouds of dust spread throughout our galaxy.
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This nebula, found in our own Milky Way galaxy, is a vast region of gas and dust surrounding a dense concentration of massive stars.
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Shopping Amazon Prime Day clothing deals is always about snagging wardrobe essentials, and maybe a few seasonal buys to round out the mix.
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Boise’s Trilogy Development is requesting to annex an additional 27 acres on the eastern portion of the site to round out the development.
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This may be because there are many instances when the air temperature is high, but the wet bulb globe temperature is lower than the air temperature, thanks to humidity levels, cloud cover, wind speed or other factors.
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Lantana, zinnias, California poppies, and globe gilia are a few drought-tolerant options.
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What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
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He’s transported to a realm of Tolkienesque fantasy, deposited somewhere between the Stony Waste and the Frozen Sea.
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The garment, rooted in West Asian culture, has been embraced with open arms by resortwear for decades, especially once it was brought into Western fashion in the 1950s by stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy.
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All three games of series were sellouts — a testament to the fandom of the two-time defending World Series champions and the team’s international baseball star, Ohtani.
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Out there, the planetesimals are too sparse and move too slowly to find one another often, and therefore most have never agglomerated into planets.
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This theory makes definite predictions about the distribution of dark matter, but leaves great uncertainty in the rather messy physics whereby gas agglomerates and converts into stars.
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“Sphere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sphere. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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