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

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

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