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

During the winter, thousands of Dutch skaters head to higher, colder climes to take part in an 'alternative Elfstedentocht', racing the full distance around a lake in Austria.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

Since the perimeter is just the distance around the triangle, we find the sum of the lengths of its three sides.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

From this, he reasoned he could determine the length of one degree of the Earth’s meridian and thus calculate the distance around the whole.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson