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Recent Examples of roundness
Enjoy the softness and roundness, the colors and the textures [and] the battle wounds.
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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
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
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
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
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This rule of thumb gives an approximation of how much money retirees can withdraw from their savings each year in order to give themselves good odds of not running out of money 30 years later.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
8 June 2026
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Since the Neo Geo’s scaling hardware can efficiently stretch those sprites vertically without much overhead, the raycasting data can be quickly converted into a chunky approximation of a first-person view.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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The result is an aesthetic that skillfully balances a variety of textures, including injecting Shou Sugi Ban custom treatments inspired by Japanese principles of wabi-sabi that typically employ elements of asymmetry, roughness, and simplicity.—
Rachel Davies,
Architectural Digest,
12 June 2026
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Features such as surface roughness and protruding fibers create more sites where particles can stick to the outer surface rather than passing through.—
Sumit Mandal,
The Conversation,
9 June 2026
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The imprecision in his birthdate, which differs from the singularness in the date of his death, feels like an open wound where the dying is more certain than the living.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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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
Noun
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This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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For a time, his family would track the inaccuracies, said Magloire, who admits to having no memory of those days, though the story was repeatedly told to him by his parents over the years.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2026
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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 20 Jun. 2026.
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