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  • noun Plural form of biosphere.

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Examples

  • LODGING - Destined to become one of the Village's most attractive of 1,500 lodging units will be the Schlitterbahn Treehaus Resort, 40 living "biospheres" with live trees, birds, animals and butterflies.

    Kansas City Kansan Homepage RSS 2009

  • During the eight-week trial, prosecutors outlined numerous alleged schemes -- oil rights in Sao Tome, cable television boxes and sugar and oil plants in Nigeria, educational technology in Botswana, telecommunications deals in Ghana and "biospheres" in Equatorial Guinea and other parts of Africa that, at $7 million apiece, would turn trash into energy.

    unknown title 2009

  • LODGING - Destined to become one of the Village's most attractive of 1,500 lodging units will be the Schlitterbahn Treehaus Resort, 40 living "biospheres" with live trees, birds, animals and butterflies.

    Kansas City Kansan Homepage RSS 2009

  • During the eight-week trial, prosecutors outlined numerous alleged schemes - oil rights in Sao Tome, cable television boxes and sugar and oil plants in Nigeria, educational technology in Botswana, telecommunications deals in Ghana and "biospheres" in Equatorial Guinea and other parts of Africa that, at $7 million apiece, would turn trash into energy.

    Home 2009

  • “Epistemological issues in the study of microbial life: Alternate terran biospheres?”

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Check out PDF guide at the link below or visit this collection of biospheres submitted by Make readers.

    Make A Biosphere For A Low-Maintenance Cubicle Companion | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • For some, the term off-grid brings to mind images of pod houses, biospheres and eccentric individualists determined to live free from society—including from the convenience of grid-supplied electricity.

    Let the Market Pay for Renewable Energy Josh Prueher 2011

  • Further, since his race obviously embraces a peculiar moral code which values pristine biospheres more than intelligent beings, there is an element of self-interest in his genocidal activities; one can even imagine that, if he returns to his peers and reports his success in saving Earth from its own nasty inhabitants, he might anticipate receiving some sort of reward - exactly like Stevens.

    MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy) 2009

  • Hellman constructed climate-controlled biospheres in a laboratory environment -- a test tube planet, with chambers representing everything from deserts to marshes and temperate forests.

    Frank Sesno: Bugging Out: Could Climate Change Make the Insect Instinct Go Haywire? Frank Sesno 2011

  • There are labs and biospheres but also a nice cosy farmhouse kitchen where Eve and the team share hearty cooked breakfasts together after long nights of cutting-edge investigation.

    TV review: The Body Farm; The Bomb Squad 2011

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