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[raund] / raʊnd /










NOUN
unit of ammunition
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Whether that momentum carries into Tuesday is less clear, with the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision coming Wednesday and a round of earnings reports due.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Most observers are saying that Lula’s campaign successfully doubled down on voter turnout, convincing many of the 33 million people who did not vote in the first round to show up for the runoff.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, notes that Trump thought Brazil would be the "10th and biggest prize" after Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term Sunday in a historic runoff upset after trailing in the first round.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

She was sitting at her round mahogany table, working on yet another appeal for her soldiers’ center.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The liabilities included convertible promissory notes dating to the artificial-intelligence developer’s early financing rounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The interim government has recently held multiple rounds of negotiations with a faction of the opposition, which has led to an agreement to reform the judiciary but not yet set a date for new elections.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The champion dictated the pace in the early rounds.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Abstention rose between rounds in six of those seven elections, with 2022 the lone exception, when it remained roughly stable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Abbot Mortimer was on his rounds with food.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The pod-like leaf called a spathe is slightly rounder and paler than the darker, flatter blades of seagrass.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

After losing in January’s NFC Championship, they did it once more when they dealt their first rounder to the Kansas City Chiefs for cornerback Trent McDuffie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

They traded their fifth-round pick to acquire Oweh in October and gave the Tennessee Titans their seventh rounder in a 2024 trade for safety Elijah Molden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

The result is a broth that feels fuller, rounder and more cohesive.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026

Of course, Elizabeth’s nose was a tiny bit shorter and maybe her chin a little rounder, but the resemblance was there just the same.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“Maybe the roundest in the universe,” Joachim Ullrich, the physicist who runs the German metrological institute and oversees the Avogadro Project, told me.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2018

More than seven feet in diameter, it was, Tom Wolfe once wrote, “the biggest roundest bed in the history of the world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2017

The size of Ping-Pong balls and coated with the superconductor niobium, the spheres were the roundest objects ever created by human beings.

From US News ● May 5, 2011

According to Adidas it was the roundest ball ever invented.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2010

And there was the hugest, roundest stove they ever saw in all their lives.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen


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