sphere
Example Sentences
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The next major milestone is expected overnight Sunday into Monday, at which point the astronauts will enter the "lunar sphere of influence," where the Moon's gravity will have stronger pull on the spacecraft than Earth's.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
There were mutterings in the tech sphere they couldn't afford the fight.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Places left and right — colleges, cities, classrooms, even states that mark Chávez’s birthday as a holiday — are now deleting his name and image from the public sphere.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
“We also have a new technology sphere that’s opening up. It’s legitimizing this need, because modern warfare is extremely different and much more technical than any form of warfare we’ve seen before.”
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026
Today he’d removed it from the control panel and shut down Festus the figurehead for maintenance—something about rewiring his processor for a motor-control upgrade with the sphere, whatever the heck that meant.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.