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radius

[rey-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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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

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

The siren, a cacophony of twelve crazed bobcats, was enough to make suspicious characters within a half- mile radius defecate in panic and rush for cover.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

As the atomic numbers of these lanthanides increase, the radii of their ions decrease.

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

As an example, the masses and radii of all nuclei up to mass number 50 were calculated using this method.

From Science Daily May 15, 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

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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