diameter
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It is feasible that the winning team will have had to travel a distance the equivalent to the diameter of the Earth.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
These fibrils were then combined with potassium hydroxide and formed into porous beads measuring about half a centimeter to one centimeter in diameter.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
“I think it was a 10-foot diameter ... everything kind of flowed back from that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
The dragging of ship anchors, a main way cables get taken out, can damage even armored cables, which are wrapped in steel wire but still roughly the diameter of a ping-pong ball.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
The pipe is about eight inches long and an inch and a half in diameter, with two metal connectors—one down by the foot, and one up where the pipe attaches to the socket.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 1
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