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Recent Examples of semicircle
In one of the hunts, called a xingwei, horsemen armed with bows formed a vast semicircle to push wildlife ahead of them.
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Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
Early that afternoon, the officers walked into a conference room where about a dozen relatives—including Ryan’s mother, stepfather, father, and three siblings, plus Emily’s mother and father—sat in chairs in a semicircle.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
With a hundred or so onlookers seated in chairs positioned in a semicircle in the library lobby, the contestants took turns busting rhymes.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Elsewhere a young pirate boy grins so broadly that the bottom half of his face is enveloped in a perfect semicircle of teeth.
—Maya Phillips, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
Early that afternoon, the officers walked into a conference room where about a dozen relatives—including Ryan’s mother, stepfather, father, and three siblings, plus Emily’s mother and father—sat in chairs in a semicircle.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
With a hundred or so onlookers seated in chairs positioned in a semicircle in the library lobby, the contestants took turns busting rhymes.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Elsewhere a young pirate boy grins so broadly that the bottom half of his face is enveloped in a perfect semicircle of teeth.
—Maya Phillips, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for semicircle
Noun
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In contrast, Trump has been slashing foreign assistance to the region while rewarding countries lined up behind his crackdown on immigration — a policy that’s widely unpopular across the hemisphere.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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The breakthrough builds on samples and measurements collected during China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first mission in history to return material from that hemisphere of the Moon.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Mars crosses the meridian about three hours after sunset on March 1 and one hour after sundown on March 31.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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The first is an 18-karat pink-gold model on an Arroyo gray calf leather strap with a silvery dial in a grid-style globe pattern, where the meridians and parallels are engraved and polished.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Semicircle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semicircle. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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