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Recent Examples of radius
Ten million people were in the radius of where the warning should have been targeted — giving people vital seconds to exit buildings.
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Clay Chandler, Fortune, 28 July 2025
All buildings were relocated from within a 75-mile radius of the attraction.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
Tom, Josh and all of Matt’s family live within a 10-mile radius in Stillwater, the kind of college town where people come back and measure time against the institutions that remain.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 10 July 2025
Measuring radii and masses of stars appears to be out of scientists’ reach.
—Andrej Prša, The Conversation, 23 July 2025
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Clay Chandler, Fortune, 28 July 2025
All buildings were relocated from within a 75-mile radius of the attraction.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
Tom, Josh and all of Matt’s family live within a 10-mile radius in Stillwater, the kind of college town where people come back and measure time against the institutions that remain.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 10 July 2025
Measuring radii and masses of stars appears to be out of scientists’ reach.
—Andrej Prša, The Conversation, 23 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radius
diameter
Noun
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The specifications of the Fission Surface Power Project called for a system that weighs just 6 tons, can fit into a cylinder 13 feet in diameter and 20 feet long, and can work for 10 years, self-regulated, with no maintenance or refuelling required.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Harvest when the bulb is about the size of a tennis ball, 2 to 3 inches in diameter.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Radius.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radius. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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