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The last round of trilateral talks, held in Geneva in February, ended without a breakthrough.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Anthropic rival OpenAI raised less than half of what it initially targeted for its latest funding round at a lower-than-targeted valuation of $1.25 trillion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
His round, open face seems perpetually creased by either a grin or a furrow, as if he were deep in thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
For his first try he snaffled a loose ball and picked a path to the line, before showing his pace from further out to round off a lovely move featuring Smith, Freeman and Furbank.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
A woman nearly tumbled out, one hand clasped over her mouth, the other clutching her round belly.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Russia and Ukraine have held several rounds of failed talks during almost five years of war and hopes for peace are low.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
After 15 gruelling rounds, Bugner claimed a hugely controversial points victory by just a quarter of a point.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
"Buatsi may stop him this time in the later rounds. I think he gets it done between rounds nine and 12."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
The U.S. has previously targeted the island in earlier rounds of the fighting, and officials have discussed seizing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
“I’ll make the rounds before the crowd gets here.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
"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
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
Matijevich’s go-to lentils to cook are French green lentils, which are smaller and rounder in size compared to green lentils.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
Your mileage may vary, but know that the best gingerbread cookie in Disneyland is actually inside the park at the Harbor Galley, where the cookies are smaller and rounder but also spicier and chewier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Wylan was a bit taller than Kuwei, his face a bit rounder.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
“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
He had the roundest, deepest voice I’d ever heard.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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