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roundels

noun

plural of roundel

as in circles

something with a perfectly round circumference the windows in the colonial-era statehouse are roundels

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Hampton will benefit from the same system that made De’Von Achane a household name in Fantasy circles.

— Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Her fantastical Biblical scenes, of a graphic, storybook sensibility, sometimes showed angels, and Christ himself, as chalky white, and this rang in some Black critical circles as a sign of backwater unsophistication.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

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The pasta—a hair clump of noodles in a soupy, sweetish tomato sauce—came in one of those parsimonious bowls with a small hollow in the middle and a rim as broad as Saturn’s rings.

— Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Carolina Bucci At her namesake shop on the Lungarno, fourth-generation jeweler Carolina Bucci sells necklaces, earrings, rings, and bracelets that feel classic yet contemporary simultaneously.

— Laura Itzkowitz, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of rings

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Considering that her designs—from the quirky and unmistakable totem collars to magic floating orbs and funky-fine rings—look like nothing else and immediately spark joy, Ashley Moubayed is keeping disco very much alive.

— Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 5 Aug. 2026
Onigiri Time is a tiny street cart in Pasadena that sells giant orbs of onigiri.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of orbs

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No side allowed their opponents more shots across the first two Premier League rounds of the season (44) than Newcastle, and Bournemouth managed another 17 on Saturday, 13 of them during the first half.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
It is designed to engage rockets, mortar rounds, unmanned aircraft, and other short-range aerial threats within a multilayered defensive network.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

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