radius
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The vessels are prohibited to approach the exclusion zone of three kilometres radius from the volcano, local port authorities said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
I was seemingly the only Asian child in a five-mile radius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some big retailers operate their own distribution centers, typically within a 200-mile radius of stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
“Lucy, what’s the circumference of a circle with a radius of 8 yards?”
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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
Overall, both mechanisms produce a lack of planets with sizes around two Earth radii.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
As a class, such stars are among the largest in the universe, with radii up to 1,500 times that of our sun and masses of up to 40 times larger than our home star.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 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
I pulled out my graph paper and my French curves, which would help me draw curves of different radii.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
"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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