radius
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I was seemingly the only Asian child in a five-mile radius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“The attack surface is exploding. Every ungoverned asset and identity is multiplying the blast radius of AI exponentially,” McDermott told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Bavi had been on track on Friday to be the largest typhoon to hit Taiwan in more than 30 years, but since then its strong-wind radius has shrunk to 350 kilometres, Cheng said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
Play cannot begin until 30 minutes have passed since lightning was last detected within an eight-mile radius of the stadium.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Imagine a circle with a radius of a few hundred yards—less than a thousand feet—with Francesco’s house at the center.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
One possibility is the Milky Way's central bar, whose gravity may cause gas to accumulate at certain radii.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
Astronomers from Germany and Switzerland have uncovered evidence of how the enigmatic gap in the size distribution of exoplanets at around two Earth radii emerges.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
For comparison, the main part of Saturn's rings sits at just three planetary radii from the gas giant.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 11, 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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