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round

[round] / raʊnd /










NOUN
unit of ammunition
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While the rainfall will be welcome, it is possible the UK could experience another round of "weather whiplash" where the pattern moves from one extreme to another.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Some of the top contenders are already coming into the ceremony as winners after the first round of awards were handed out earlier this month.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

The 80-year-old American president is expected to attend the tournament over the weekend and present the trophy after Sunday's final round.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

In April 2022, a Series C funding round had valued Boring at $5.675 billion.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Again he tugged at the bindings round his wrists.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

After rounds of failed fertility treatment, Jude was a dream come true for the couple who said they hoped to give him a brother or sister next year.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Lined on the floor was box after box of ballpoint-pen-sized .50-caliber rounds; beside them lay a mound of bullet casings and a half-destroyed drone.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The venue also has bowling and laser tag, plus a full bar and restaurant if you need to recover between rounds.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

Walters, who hails from New Zealand, underwent several unsuccessful rounds of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy in Auckland.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

After the festivities, Schindler still had the energy to make his rounds of the factory.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

"Younger males and females both had more pointed heads, but the head became rounder as the sharks matured. That change was much greater in females."

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

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

By about half a million years ago, human fossils had diverged from older Homo erectus skeletons in their enlarged, rounder, and less angular skulls.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“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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