ring-shaped

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The team tested PapB on three different GLP-1-like peptides, and in each case, the enzyme converted the linear molecules into ring-shaped versions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

From its humble beginnings when the founders worked out of Jobs’ family garage, Apple has ballooned over the last five decades, opening a sprawling ring-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and employing roughly 166,000 workers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

These include 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to build proteins and all four of the ring-shaped molecules that make up DNA - adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

Some placentas have evolved to be disklike, some are leaf-shaped, some ring-shaped, heart-shaped; some are ridged, branched, labyrinthine, or weblike.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2024

Wiping with his dirtcolored rag the ring-shaped water stains they had left on his marble Refreshments Counter.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy