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Using either BMI or waist circumference provided a better balance between correctly identifying people with obesity and avoiding false-positive diagnoses.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Where body fat accumulates can be important for health, which is one reason waist circumference can provide information that BMI alone does not capture.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

And it was a nerve-shredding putt from inside three feet that travelled most of the circumference of the hole before dropping that deservedly saw Korda home.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

On average, the intervention group lost 3.3 kg and reduced waist circumference by 3.6 cm.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

With them he deduced the circumference of the Earth with an error of only a few percent, a remarkable achievement for 2,200 years ago.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The helmets are marked as large, for head circumferences between 22.5 to 25 inches.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

Drips are indulged, or even encouraged, and rings of painted dots often trace the circumferences of larger orbs.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

During an inspection Dec. 15, Sampson observed “numerous” branches with 2- to 8-inch circumferences that were severed by the aerial saw and allowed to fall from 150 feet above, according to the violation notice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

A meager set is a set contained in the countable union of nowhere dense sets, such as the circumference of a circle in the plane, or finitely or countably many such circumferences.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2021

The proportion of diameters to circumferences is the same.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert