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Recent Examples of oblate
As a result, the Earth's normal oblate shape, resembling a somewhat flattened sphere bulging at the equator, is flattening even more, Adhikari said.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 July 2024
In the north, Solomon knew, young oblates, the cherished daughters of gentlewomen, were given to the Lord out of the ranks of the nobility.
—Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
But Earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning a 3D shape created by an ellipsis that’s rotating around its shorter axis—like a more rounded jelly donut.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2020
This was unexpected at Jupiter—a heavy, fast rotating, oblate (flattened at the poles) planet.
—Andrew Coates, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2018
Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 July 2024
In the north, Solomon knew, young oblates, the cherished daughters of gentlewomen, were given to the Lord out of the ranks of the nobility.
—Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
But Earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning a 3D shape created by an ellipsis that’s rotating around its shorter axis—like a more rounded jelly donut.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2020
This was unexpected at Jupiter—a heavy, fast rotating, oblate (flattened at the poles) planet.
—Andrew Coates, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblate
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The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Catholic religious order of Franciscan friars, was founded in Italy.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Dreher, who was close with Vance at the time, introduced him to a group of Dominican friars in Washington.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
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Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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That much is clear inside the company’s headquarters in Leuven, a town where monks first began brewing beer more than 600 years ago, fermenting hops with water from the polluted river running through town in the belief that the drink made the fish from the water safer to eat.BYVivienne Walt, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
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Artists in China depicted Cloth Bag as a plump, laughing monk often surrounded by children or animals.Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2024
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In Thank You for Your Servitude, which for my money is the only truly interesting book about the Trump presidency, author Mark Leibovich goes into harrowing detail about how the modern GOP readily turned itself into a gaggle of mendicants to serve Trump on bended knee.Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
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All these words strike me as vaguely offensive except for mendicant and supplicant.Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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Feulner came from a devout Roman Catholic family, while Weyrich himself was an ordained deacon of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.Samantha Riedel, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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Earlier in the year LaBeouf was confirmed into the Catholic Church with intentions of becoming a deacon.Arimeta Diop, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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There, the reverend and Sister Deborah initially work in harmony, attracting devoted new converts.Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
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In his letter, the reverend encouraged parishioners to participate in services and activities at the Oak Park location of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish.Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2024
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Born in Round Rock, Talarico is currently training to become a preacher.Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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Raised by a preacher and a professional bodybuilder father, Pope draws on his upbringing to confront internalized homophobia and navigate his identity.Marc Malkin, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Oblate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblate. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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