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Recent Examples of spheroid
In situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies NASA.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
Unlike previous bioprinting options that lack the necessary, spheroids better approximate cell densities seen in the human body.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
The disk’s material will most likely fall onto the embryonic moon from the radial (in-out) direction, sculpting the satellite into an egg or football shape—what’s called a prolate spheroid—with the long axis pointing toward the parent body.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
In general the studies kept the airway spheroids embedded and immobilized in a protein-rich gel called Matrigel.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
Unlike previous bioprinting options that lack the necessary, spheroids better approximate cell densities seen in the human body.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
The disk’s material will most likely fall onto the embryonic moon from the radial (in-out) direction, sculpting the satellite into an egg or football shape—what’s called a prolate spheroid—with the long axis pointing toward the parent body.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
In general the studies kept the airway spheroids embedded and immobilized in a protein-rich gel called Matrigel.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spheroid
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The plan was already beginning to emerge on a sheet of Mylar graph paper—an oval, surrounded by arrows, with a handful of anomalous objects marked.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Last-lap wrecks taking out the leader and altering the race’s result may not be what some want to see, but that is life in a sport with 40 cars racing around an oval at high speeds, all with a ton of incentive to cross the finish line first.—
Jordan Bianchi,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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With the escalating outbreak driving up egg prices to record highs, could that approach soon change?—
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Trump blames it on former President Joe Biden, but soaring egg prices signal that the problem won’t be easy to resolve.—
Andrew Ross Sorkin,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Housed in an 18k yellow gold double ellipse case, the Extra Plat is a reimagining of a 1990 design.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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At the ellipse, Trump ends his speech by telling the crowd to march on Congress.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA TODAY,
4 Jan. 2025
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But in seven late-season starts at the Triple-A level, Sproat experienced his first hardship in pro ball, compiling a 7.53 ERA and seeing his strikeout rate plummet.—
Tim Britton,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
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Makes a really good play on the first ball hit out to left-center field.—
Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Europe faces two great crises — in the economic and security spheres — that are, ultimately, two sides of the same coin.—
Courtenay Brown,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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Maintaining focus on these problems in the public policy sphere is challenging given the significant time since the last event in 1994 that produced significant damage in a California urban center.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
16 Feb. 2025
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The central loop has a similar crystal but this one dangles from the top giving it constant movement when worn.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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This may throw our daily commutes, communication, and communal activities for a loop.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Mar. 2025
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Rocket’s kit makes this uniquely possible: His alt fire is a bouncing heal orb which is the sole source of his (very strong) healing.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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In this image, taken by JUICE's Monitoring Camera 1, the Earth appears as a brilliant blue and white orb at bottom while the moon is little more than a bright speck to its left.—
Space.com Staff,
Space.com,
1 Jan. 2025
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“Spheroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spheroid. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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