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round

[round] / raʊnd /










NOUN
unit of ammunition
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The critter gained numerous fans during its brief romp around Comerica, with the crowd booing after its capture and again when Miller called for a round of applause for the ground crew after the ordeal.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Each day, I made the three-mile round trip to inspect the warblers, chipmunks and generally mysterious rustlings of the underbrush.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

A French patrol boat has appeared to fire a round of gunshots in the English Channel during a BBC interview with an MP.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

"This Nvidia employee was identified as a person involved in the case after investigators analysed the relevant evidence following the previous round of searches targeting Super Micro," the source told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

He ran to me, and I folded my arms round him, my heart fit to burst right out of my chest.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

And he didn’t card a single bogey in the final two rounds, which kept him safe while Scheffler shot up the leaderboard with a final round 63.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

"I think Joshua will be a little bit more confident and forceful against this level of opposition. I think it will be three or four rounds before Joshua gets to him with a stoppage."

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

The government held two rounds of talks with CJP leaders on Monday and Friday but little headway was made initially, with the youth-led movement sticking to their demands.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

He said the stock market was reacting to both the fresh rounds of strikes in Iran and disappointment over big tech’s earnings results so far, in a note to clients on Thursday.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Each day Brannon ran three miles, worked out on the punching bag in the gym, and boxed a few rounds with anyone he could insult or entice into the ring with him.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Barely an hour later, they traded their other defensive linchpin, defensive lineman Quinnen Williams, to the Dallas Cowboys for an additional first-round pick along with a second rounder.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 5, 2025

Humans, by contrast, possess rounder heads and much flatter faces.

From Science Daily Oct. 29, 2025

“They look some alike,” he said, “but not when you look close. This one has rounder eyes than that one.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The spheres are also thought to be the roundest objects on earth.

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

He had the roundest, deepest voice I’d ever heard.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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