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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
Meters away, two humanoid robots, with bulbous joints and expressionless plastic domes for faces, stand at a desk.
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Billy Perrigo,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
Then came some tops and skirts in bulbous shapes — a clear nod to the cocoon silhouette that cemented Balenciaga in fashion history — as well as textured dresses, some with exaggerated trains that billowed with each step.
Those lucky/sitting ducks were at the center of a manifold creative pressure, like the core of a planet pulled spherical by gravity.
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Kate Colby
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
The prototypes were spherical wire frames containing sails; in the wind tunnel, they were put through their paces on different surfaces, including rough and smooth terrain, sand, pebbles and boulder fields.
Open star clusters are much less dense than their globular counterparts and a pair of binoculars with a lower magnification allows for a more comprehensive view.
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Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 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.
The Moomins, created by Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson during WWII, are gentle, rotund trolls who live in Moominvalley, a magical place where adventures are always waiting around the corner and the values of friendship, bravery and respect are ever-present.
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Carole Horst,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
The rotund bomb is similar to the one used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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