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- adjective   Resembling a globe .
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Examples
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								The company is celebrating its residency at Rosslyn's Artisphere (the globelike building that once housed the Newseum) with a couple of plays in repertory -- "Mary Stuart" and "Richard III." On stage in October Stephanie Merry 2010 
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								The vines-of-own were lined with flowers of bright pink, with pollen pods which sat globelike within them. Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010 
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								Then it instantane - ously erupted into a huge, globelike inferno of death. Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003 
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								Whereas the latter resembled an old-fashioned hip flask with a couple of warp nacelles tucked underneath it, this vessel was comprised of an elegant central cylinder, two powerful-looking nacelles suspended above it, and a roomy, globelike appendage in front. Starfleet Year One Michael Jan Friedman 2002 
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								And when Cagney commits suicide rather than give up – standing cockily on that gigantic globelike gas tank (in a field of gas tanks), shooting directly into it, yelling, "Top o 'the world, Ma!" just before his world blasts into smithereens – it is among the most ambiguously thrilling moments in movie history. Bobcat Is Back With a Big-Ass Show ��� Cagney and Raoul Walsh ��� An Actress Speaks 1998 
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								And when Cagney commits suicide rather than give up – standing cockily on that gigantic globelike gas tank (in a field of gas tanks), shooting directly into it, yelling, "Top o 'the world, Ma!" just before his world blasts into smithereens – it is among the most ambiguously thrilling moments in movie history. Bobcat Is Back With a Big-Ass Show ��� Cagney and Raoul Walsh ��� An Actress Speaks 1998 
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								She raised the glass again, and the angle of light showed it to be a wineglass, a large, globelike glass. The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994 
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								Then it instantane - ously erupted into a huge, globelike inferno of death. Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990 
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								I saw to my surprise, that the man, he who had been called Kunguni, drew forth, from beneath his tunic, a sewn, padded mound of cloth, heavy, globelike, with dangling straps. Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980 
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								The vines-of-own were lined with flowers of bright pink, with pollen pods which sat globelike within them. Midworld Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1975 
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