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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.
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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)
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—John Loeffler, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2025
Tuck its hem into the top of your yoga pants so that the dress bulges, creating the illusion of an oblate spheroid.
—Julie Sharbutt, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
Instead of days of work HITS-Bio built its spheroid sample in less than 40 minutes.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
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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
Tuck its hem into the top of your yoga pants so that the dress bulges, creating the illusion of an oblate spheroid.
—Julie Sharbutt, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
Instead of days of work HITS-Bio built its spheroid sample in less than 40 minutes.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spheroid. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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spheroid
noun
spher·oid
ˈsfi(ə)r-ˌȯid 
ˈsfe(ə)r-
: a figure resembling a flattened sphere
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