roundness

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Recent Examples of roundness Blow-dry the front sections away from the face to create the characteristic roundness and make the individual layers visible. — Lucy Binder, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2026 There’s a pleasing roundness to the GV90’s lines and overall aesthetic that seems to deliberately veer away from flash. — Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2026 That eight-step process analyses balls according to eight criteria, including circumference, water absorption, rebound height, shape and size retention, and sphericity (a measurement of roundness). — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 20 June 2026 Enjoy the softness and roundness, the colors and the textures [and] the battle wounds. — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 9 June 2026 The oven lends an exquisite depth to everything that passes through it—a roundness and tang, a kiss of smolder. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 In the past, it was widely planted and consumed for its roundness and fruitiness, often serving as a blending grape. — Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026 And that feels like the roundness of a life. — 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roundness
Noun
  • With just a few more steps, the group turned the approximation of the surface into an explicit equation and, ultimately, a family of polynomials with degree-23 (meaning the variable climbs to x23 and there are 23 roots to shuffle around).
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • This is an approximation based on years of berry eating, not a real statistic.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Okereke himself, who was the one called for the unnecessary roughness penalty, was disappointed but resolute postgame.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Broncos linebacker Alex Singleton was fined $11,941 for unnecessary roughness after a late hit on Chiefs rookie running back Emmett Johnson.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Perhaps only a pedant—or a hypocrite—would fuss about that kind of imprecision.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Such imprecision gives the whole movie the quality of a cosmic joke.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The general inaccuracy was not particularly surprising and has been well-documented in previous research.
    — Jason Kostrna, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The inaccuracies of the old map include the shortening of Africa, and the relative expansion of North America and Eurasia.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Most denim blends using hemp only include 20 or 30 percent of the fiber due to its coarseness.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • 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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“Roundness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roundness. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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