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Recent Examples of roundishAt maturity, trees reach about 20 to 30 feet tall with a slightly larger width, ending up in a roundish shape with a flatter top.—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024 The storage unit is perfect for round (or roundish) bottles, which make the most use of the space.—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2022 There’s a roundish globe, a more triangular bulb, and an oval shape.—WIRED, 5 Sep. 2022 When baked to perfection, Savillum resembles a roundish pancake or omelet, slightly yellowish and with an overcooked surface.—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for roundish
Aristotle was also among the first of his contemporaries to recognise that Earth was spherical, based on his observations of the curved shadow cast on the lunar surface during a lunar eclipse.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Jan. 2026
This thinking was the inspiration behind one of Janes’s latest debuts—a featherweight complexion savior that suspends weightless spherical powders within a liquid serum base, while sinking almost instantly into skin.
Fast forward to today, and, somehow, the tremendously rotund AMG GT rips down twisty roads with nearly as much athleticism as fare weighing 2,000-or-more pounds less.
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Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
This movie re-creates the makeover montage, replete with the prosthetics and the gay brother, as well as the party scene wherein the protagonist must appear as both themselves and their rotund elderly character.
Done well, this would create a more circular music economy, reinvesting value back into the places where the creative work originates.
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Shain Shapiro,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
High-octane glamour is delivered by servers in glittering jumpsuits worthy of an Abba reunion and a huge circular amber bar, fashioned in the shape of an old whiskey tumbler found in the walls of Raffles Singapore during renovations.