distance around
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She seemed to hold no mistrust toward me and my halting Spanish, no shard of suspicion that I could use to create the usual distance around myself.
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026
Pi is a special number that describes the connection between the distance around a circle and the distance across it.
From NewsForKids.net • Mar. 14, 2024
“The star itself might have a very unusual history that somehow permitted this planet to survive at such a close distance around what is otherwise a rather inhospitable host star,” he added.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023
Over the next 28 weeks the Carrier Strike Group will cover 26,000 miles - further than the distance around the world at the equator.
From BBC • May 21, 2021
From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance around the earth was 400,000 stadia.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
