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snow globe

American

[snoh glohb] / ˈsnoʊ ˌgloʊb /

noun

a clear glass or plastic ball containing a model scene, a clear liquid, and white flakes that settle like snow when the globe is shaken.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

snow globes

plural

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snow globe

The theater vanished into the green wormhole, disintegrating into a snow globe with the theater inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

“Each takes money and time. It’s better to be skating to where the puck is going. Nobody is talking about the snow globe of the future.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

What next for the Chiefs after 'NFL snow globe shaken'

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

Sixty of us in the rising tram were in our own personal snow globe.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

“You have a snow globe collection?” said Mother.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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