radius
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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
Local is key to their ethos - they don't operate outside of a 20-mile radius and their only ambition for growth is helping others start similar projects.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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
He knows all about every leg of goose within a radius of fifteen miles.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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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
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
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"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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