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For my birthday six months later, my husband made a list of all the best things to do within a 50-mile radius.
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Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Investigators expanded their request for video footage and sent out an alert via a Neighbors App to users within a two-mile radius of Guthrie's home in the Catalina Foothills community outside Tucson.
—Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 12 Feb. 2026
While the restrictions were active, no pilots could operate any aircraft in the areas covered by the Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, within a 10-nautical-mile radius surrounding El Paso International Airport.
—Robbie Farias, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026
For now, that radius spans Dania Beach north to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea and west to Wilton Manors, according to Uber Eats.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
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Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Investigators expanded their request for video footage and sent out an alert via a Neighbors App to users within a two-mile radius of Guthrie's home in the Catalina Foothills community outside Tucson.
—Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 12 Feb. 2026
While the restrictions were active, no pilots could operate any aircraft in the areas covered by the Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, within a 10-nautical-mile radius surrounding El Paso International Airport.
—Robbie Farias, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026
For now, that radius spans Dania Beach north to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea and west to Wilton Manors, according to Uber Eats.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radius
diameter
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Because the moon’s diameter appears smaller than that of the sun, our star looks to us like a fiery halo of light in the sky, hence the eclipse’s nickname.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
17 Feb. 2026
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Totems and totems with flags, less than 7 feet tall, and less than 1 inch in diameter.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Radius.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radius. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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