radius

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Recent Examples of radius Where not to park Within a mile radius from the festival, all parking in neighborhoods require a permit. Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Accessibility features include restrooms with a 60-inch turning radius and automatic doors. Zach Wichter, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025 An alias reduces the blast radius. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025 The closures are all within a four-mile radius of the crime scene, which is located in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chris Spargo, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for radius
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diameter
Noun
  • Another house-sized space rock, spanning around 58 feet, is also speeding towards Earth tomorrow, according to NASA, joined by a 35-foot-diameter asteroid expected to get with 500,000 miles of our planet.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • With these tools, Kelluu airships can create digital twins of areas up to 300 kilometers (186 miles) in diameter from a single station.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Radius.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radius. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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