Sphere and Vortex

Sphere

Sphere noun - A more or less round body or mass.

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Vortex and sphere are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vortex" instead a noun "Sphere".

Nearby Words: spherical, sphered, spheric, spheral, spherically

Vortex noun - Water moving rapidly in a circle with a hollow in the center.

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Sphere and vortex are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Sphere" instead a noun "Vortex".

Nearby Word: vortical

human	human sphere	human vortex
green	green sphere	green vortex
small	small sphere	small vortex
powerful	powerful sphere	powerful vortex
Other adjectives: actual, entire, massive, big, enormous, huge, evil, blue, dark, white, new, glowing, final, mysterious, gigantic, titular, giant, red, magical, aforementioned, floating, purple, expanding.

Macross Frontier introduces the "Dimension Eater"/"fold bomb", which generates an expanding swirly purple sphere of doom that shunts anything consumed by it into a Fold vortex (where it will be torn apart and disintegrated) as it grows to planetary scale before collapsing in on itself.

Source: Sphere of Destruction
The Vortex Grenade, which is a Sphere of Annihilation by another name, and uses a template which follows this trope to a T.

Source: Sphere of Destruction
Justified in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, where the "Vortex World" is, essentially, the area along the inside of a giant sphere.

Source: Law of Cartographical Elegance

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