ring-shaped
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The company opened a sprawling ring-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and employs roughly 166,000 workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Also known as the Chagos Archipelago, there are around 60 individual islands, grouped together in seven ring-shaped coral atolls.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
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
The connectors bonded to specific sites on the poles, creating a sheet with ring-shaped voids, a bit like a chain-link fence.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 4, 2024
In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
