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Select a pot with drainage about an inch or two larger in diameter.
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Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2025
Combined, the ground-to-space radio telescope network formed an interferometer with a baseline (i.e., its virtual aperture) that was five times the diameter of Earth, and this enabled sensational resolving power.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2025
When the new study’s team returned in 2020 and 2021, 43 percent of the sample sites had new, young trees with trunks that were at least two inches in diameter at chest height—something researchers hadn’t seen since the 1940s.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2025
The planet killer that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs was estimated to be roughly 6 miles (about 10 kilometers) in diameter.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
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Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2025
Combined, the ground-to-space radio telescope network formed an interferometer with a baseline (i.e., its virtual aperture) that was five times the diameter of Earth, and this enabled sensational resolving power.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2025
When the new study’s team returned in 2020 and 2021, 43 percent of the sample sites had new, young trees with trunks that were at least two inches in diameter at chest height—something researchers hadn’t seen since the 1940s.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2025
The planet killer that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs was estimated to be roughly 6 miles (about 10 kilometers) in diameter.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diameter
radius
Noun
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Measuring stellar radii Kepler’s harmonic law, unfortunately, tells astronomers nothing about the radii of stars.—
Andrej Prša,
Space.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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If an attacker manages to breach one segment, they are prevented from moving laterally to other segments, drastically limiting the blast radius of any attack.—
Jody Brazil,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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“Diameter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diameter. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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