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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
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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
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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
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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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