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snow globe

American  
[snoh glohb] / ˈsnoʊ ˌgloʊb /

noun

snow globes plural
  1. 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.


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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

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

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024

Martini Town, however, might as well have been a snow globe celebrating Picturesque Christmasville, U.S.A.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023

She shook the snow globe and watched the glittery snow swirl through the water to fill the empty world.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

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