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cylindrical

[si-lin-dri-kuhl] / sɪˈlɪn drɪ kəl /


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That’s right: Oprah Winfrey persuaded her followers to buy a cylindrical glass container holding paper and air, for $45.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Enviva pioneered the business of pressing sawdust into cylindrical capsules and shipping boatloads of them to overseas power plants looking to burn an alternative to coal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

On one lamp in the studio, tentacles hold up cylindrical copper spires with submarine-style looking glasses to reveal a small bulb inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Some are cylindrical, some are coiled, some are spheres.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm




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