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Recent Examples of roundness
And that feels like the roundness of a life.
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Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Senes experimented with gravity and curves, using foam to sculpt garments reflecting the moon’s roundness.
—Mary Wenthur, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026
The aged lees add a complexity and roundness that elevates the wine and Early Mountain’s commitment to the variety.
—Emily Cappiello, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
In the heart, the aged oud takes place alongside licorice and patchouli, adding both spice and earthiness while allowing the wood’s creamy roundness to shine.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
Her hand went to her stomach, to feel for the roundness that had been there.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The results presented at ECTC show CMP being taken to another level, not just flattening across the wafer but reducing mere nanometers of roundness on the insulation between the copper pads to ensure better connections.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Senes experimented with gravity and curves, using foam to sculpt garments reflecting the moon’s roundness.
—Mary Wenthur, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026
The aged lees add a complexity and roundness that elevates the wine and Early Mountain’s commitment to the variety.
—Emily Cappiello, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
In the heart, the aged oud takes place alongside licorice and patchouli, adding both spice and earthiness while allowing the wood’s creamy roundness to shine.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
Her hand went to her stomach, to feel for the roundness that had been there.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The results presented at ECTC show CMP being taken to another level, not just flattening across the wafer but reducing mere nanometers of roundness on the insulation between the copper pads to ensure better connections.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roundness
Noun
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The institute likes spring fire testing at its site about halfway between Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina, because while summer temperatures in the South can nearly match those in the fire-prone West, the swampy humidity in July is a bad approximation to a mountain canyon.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Deliveries are the closest approximation of sales reported by Tesla, but are not precisely defined in the company's shareholder communications.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The roughness has to do with our times.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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Tiny imperfections, including surface roughness, slight misalignments, and stray electrical charges, can destabilize the trap.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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A certain amount of confusion and imprecision is built into the use of the term.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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The evidence is considered very low certainty due to the studies’ risk of bias, inconsistency, and imprecision.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Check your credit report for errors or inaccuracies (especially after debt settlement) and dispute anything that looks wrong.—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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Small frequency inaccuracies cause vibration reliability to drop, and the result is a mixed bag of products that don't perform as expected.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Roundness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roundness. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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