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Recent Examples of roundishImpact craters, unlike other roundish holes in the ground, say from ancient collapsed volcanoes, will often cause specific anomalies in magnetic and gravitational fields.—Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2019 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
Choose a fairly tall and tulip-shaped – bulbous at the bottom glass to give the bubbles enough room to develop but which tapers at the top to fully concentrate the aromas.
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Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Among the 100 outfits on display are some bombastic, kite-like contraptions, bulbous pileups of fabric donuts, and a Chewbacca-esque cape-cum-sarcophogus.
Or what happens if the cylinder is not perfectly spherical?
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Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
12 June 2025
The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a distance 1,000 times greater than the orbit of Neptune, is widely thought to be spherical — although it has never been directly observed.
The rounded edges are elegant as well as modern, and the wood finish is a really unique tone.
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Briana Feigon,
Architectural Digest,
19 June 2025
All of this looks fantastic — while on Earth, Elio suffers a bit from that squishy, rounded animation style that’s recently become more or less Pixar’s house look.
Hanging from the ceiling are globular pendant lamps (from the French brand DCW Editions).
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Julie Lasky,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.
Guests descend several circular staircases into a network of chalk pits and galleries, parts of which date to the Gallo-Roman era.
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Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Fashion for Good recently published an article that examines the environmental challenges of denim production and provides alternatives for more circular systems.
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Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
26 June 2025
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