circumference
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Earlier results from the Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial showed that adding a daily avocado did not reduce body weight or waist circumference in people with obesity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
And it was a nerve-shredding putt from inside three feet that travelled most of the circumference of the hole before dropping that deservedly saw Korda home.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Average body weight was 99.0 kg, average BMI was 36.6 kg/m², and average waist circumference was 115 cm.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
Patients also showed improvements relative to placebo on key secondary goals of the trial including waist circumference, blood glucose and blood pressure, they added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Looking closer, they saw that the hole’s circumference was barely that of a pencil.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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The helmets are marked as large, for head circumferences between 22.5 to 25 inches.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Drips are indulged, or even encouraged, and rings of painted dots often trace the circumferences of larger orbs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
During an inspection Dec. 15, Sampson observed “numerous” branches with 2- to 8-inch circumferences that were severed by the aerial saw and allowed to fall from 150 feet above, according to the violation notice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
A meager set is a set contained in the countable union of nowhere dense sets, such as the circumference of a circle in the plane, or finitely or countably many such circumferences.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2021
Or, more in agreement with Euclid’s form:— Two different circles, whose circumferences have a point in common, cannot have the same centre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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