spheroid

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Recent Examples of spheroid The Quantum Solution Despite the planet’s relatively regular spheroid shape, the Earth’s gravitational pull is not uniform. IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025 But when either snacking on regular bone-in rodents or a calcium-rich diet, snake cell crypts featured plenty of calcium, phosphorus, and iron spheroids. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 July 2025 The only thing that could concentrate our eyes and minds, in this reverse panopticon of seventy thousand gazes, was the football itself, that precious prolate spheroid of dimpled cowhide, which had yet to be teed up or booted into play. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 Be massive to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium (i.e., be a spheroid under the force of its own gravity) 3. John Loeffler, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spheroid
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Noun
  • All 15 villas are enormous and arranged around an oval walkway, with wooden walls and floors, stone bathrooms and marble dressing rooms.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
  • This tiny oval connects to a PC or gaming handheld via USB-C cable and serves as a dedicated wireless receiver for the controller on its own wireless frequency.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Key Takeaways Bagels topped with bacon, egg, and cheese are better for blood sugar, but high sodium can raise blood pressure.
    Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Mornings start at the barn-style main restaurant, where the tight breakfast menu includes mushroom noodles, yak yogurt granola, and coddled eggs with cordyceps (a local edible fungi) alongside a small buffet spread of fresh bread, yak butter, jam, and tsampa (buckwheat flour) for porridge.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This resonance dramatically stretches the planet’s orbit, turning it into a long, narrow ellipse.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The double-ellipse frame now reveals the full architecture of the caliber DR002SR, while the watch preserves the classical proportions and architecture of the original.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 19 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Seattle receiver Golden Tate, after pushing off on the Packers’ Sam Shields (no flag was thrown, naturally), had made what seemed like a belated reach and put a single arm on the ball as Jennings fell to the ground.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Following the break, in the 51st minute, LAFC caused havoc around the Toluca box and the ball bounced to the top of the circle.
    Josh Gross, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Decades later, however, the origin story of these carbon spheres remains enigmatic.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Even under the most efficient packing arrangement, there will be gaps between neighboring spheres.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Gambling addiction is a serious public health issue that prediction markets intensify by merging the addictive feedback loops of social media with casino-style wagering.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
  • This feedback loop can bear strange fruit.
    Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Continue reading … SECRET CRACKED — NOAA identifies bizarre 'golden orb' found 2 miles deep on sea floor near Alaska.
    , FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The conundrum began in the summer of 2023, when NOAA personnel aboard the Okeanos Explorer sent a robot about two miles down to explore a small seamount and found the golden orb, which was about four inches in diameter, connected to a rock.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026

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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spheroid. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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