radius
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Neighboring residents would include people who live within the noticing radius of a development project, which can vary but is typically around a 500-feet radius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
That location is accessible to members only and via online delivery apps within a small radius.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Its estimated orbital distance is only about twice the red supergiant's radius.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Ignat acknowledged that the new system had a small operating radius.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Everybody with fingers in a twenty-mile radius showed up and was hired on the spot.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
Some well-studied white dwarfs have unexpectedly large radii for their relatively low masses.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
As the atomic numbers of these lanthanides increase, the radii of their ions decrease.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
As a class, such stars are among the largest in the universe, with radii up to 1,500 times that of our sun and masses of up to 40 times larger than our home star.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2023
In simulations, the researchers included an object about the size of Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon, orbiting about 43 Saturn radii out—between the orbits of Titan and Iapetus.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 14, 2022
She turned back around, which took a moment because ponies do not have quick turning radii.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
"We come at night because of the congestion," Patton said, noting that each truck requires a two-driver team to handle the city's turning radiuses.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Workers mapped out turning radiuses for buses, trimmed trees that would brush against bus windshields and painted dedicated bus lanes, she said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
The leg profile drove the design of the rest of the piece, making soft radiuses on all the surfaces that contact the body while keeping a clean, flush profile on the exterior of the chair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2016
Importantly, they also do the boring and ore calculations based on different radiuses.
From Forbes ● Nov. 6, 2012
People have all kinds of words for them now but basically it was two radiuses mixed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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