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Recent Examples of convex
Providers have been instructed to use headphones, computer privacy screens and even convex mirrors to block veterans’ view of other people in the room, documents and interviews show.
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Ellen Barry, New York Times, 4 May 2025
British designer Thomas Heatherwick transformed the industrial structure with enormous, convex geometric windows—56 panels of glass in each—that bulge outward like giant pillowed eyes, turning the building into a sculptural object visible across Cape Town's waterfront.
—Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2025
The field is constrained such that its iso-values represent curved layers that are supported from below, and present a convex surface affording for collision-free navigation of the printer head.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2018
Concave tiles, which curve inward, and convex tiles, which curve outward, are installed at different levels along the seawall.
—Sara Pezeshk, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
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Ellen Barry, New York Times, 4 May 2025
British designer Thomas Heatherwick transformed the industrial structure with enormous, convex geometric windows—56 panels of glass in each—that bulge outward like giant pillowed eyes, turning the building into a sculptural object visible across Cape Town's waterfront.
—Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2025
The field is constrained such that its iso-values represent curved layers that are supported from below, and present a convex surface affording for collision-free navigation of the printer head.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2018
Concave tiles, which curve inward, and convex tiles, which curve outward, are installed at different levels along the seawall.
—Sara Pezeshk, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convex
Adjective
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His eyesight was failing and his eyes were bloodshot and protuberant.—
Hermione Lee,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Sep. 2022
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Hours and hours of rubbing abrasive pumice across the roughened marble resulted in the lustrous surfaces of the sculpture, including the high sheen of Pan’s taut chest and ribs, muscular right arm, and protuberant belly.—
William A. Wallace,
WSJ,
28 Jan. 2022
Adjective
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This further makes the case for new H&M home finds like the Bubbly Stoneware Bowl, whose bulbous nature will play off the linearity of your bookshelves and end tables exceptionally well.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
14 Aug. 2025
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The Xenomorph is a person inside a Xenomorph suit with its gruesome bulbous head and alien drool.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The game is playable on Nintendo Switch 1, so everyone has a chance to get in on the spherical action.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
31 July 2025
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Those arguing that this is a special version of the movie that exists only in one specific and spherical context are right, but so are impending fears around AI manipulation in cinema and that a classic has to be made better.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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The Galaxy Buds Pro also feature a streamlined, minimally protrusive shape that allows for limited contact with the open air and a unique chamber and mesh filters that cut out disruptive wind interference for clearer-sounding calls no matter the weather.—
Zarah Kavarana,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2021
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Lumbar support on the mesh back is very good and the curve is well-placed and protrusive enough to support my slightly more pronounced back curvature perfectly.—
Corey Gaskin and Jeff Dunn,
Ars Technica,
11 Sep. 2020
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“Convex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convex. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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