snow globe
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“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
On the kind of day that NFL Films voice-of-God John Facenda would have loved, in a snow globe of a stadium, Barkley was all but unstoppable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025
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
They come back to me, die scattered days of that summer with the Object, each encased in a souvenir snow globe.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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