radius

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Newby asked Farooq about the potential radius of an explosion and managed to persuade him to move away from the building's entrance.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

It was the only thing within a multi-gate radius — a landscape of breakfast smash burgers and pepperoni pizza bagels — that didn’t make me queasy.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

In a four-block radius from home, we have four grocery stores, two dozen eateries, two gift boutiques, many other shops and two parks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Although many Apollo samples showed strong magnetism, some scientists argued that the Moon's small core, which measures only about 1/7th of its radius, would have struggled to sustain a powerful magnetic field.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

At about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, it would have a minimum size, which was equal to the maximum radius of the history in imaginary time.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking