radial
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That’s where the group’s volunteers work in concert with Southern California Gas crews patching the scores of potholes created by extreme nature, not by radial tires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Warwick team, working with astronomers from the University of Colorado Boulder in the US, was interested in the four nearby systems because of a "substantial radial wobble".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But the promised buildings have never materialised, and Crown Road, a four-kilometre circular road with 12 radial routes is still under construction.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The playa is arranged as a semicircle, and radial streets are named as if their position were a clock face.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
Adam’s irises were light blue with dark radial lines leading into the vortices of his pupils.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
It suggests that, contrary to Johanson's argument, the radials of lungfish and other lobe-finned fish are not all equivalent to digits.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2020
The book focusses on six designs: arcs or waves, meanders, spirals, radials or explosions, cells and networks, and fractals.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2019
The federal government poured money into the brand new interstate system, encouraging radials, arteries and thoroughfares through dense urban neighbourhoods.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2018
In the deep violet light at 70 feet, the sight is shocking: steel-belted radials covering an area the size of 27 football fields.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2016
The radial spines are somewhat variable in relative length, often becoming almost equal, while sometimes the upper radials are very much reduced.
From North American Species of Cactus by John Merle Coulter
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