- a variation of disk.
disc
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Some patients already have an elevated risk, including those who have a small optic disc or conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Previously discovered debris discs around white dwarfs have shared a recognizable observational signature consistent with a single, flat, rotating disc.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
The auction also includes the gold disc and platinum CD presented to her for sales milestones achieved by Michael's music.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
They press vinyl to sell at shows, and it gets into the hands of disc jockeys at ever-larger radio stations with an increasing number of watts behind their broadcasts.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Only when the moon began to rise—the edge of its great disc growing brighter and brighter on the skyline below and behind them—did he at last beg Holly to hurry.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Their remains can form rotating discs of debris around the dead star.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Inside Mohammed al-Fateh's bakery in Khartoum, workers mixed flour, water and yeast into a thick dough, which they divided into round discs and slid into the oven on long wooden paddles.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
"I know she was proud of the various personalised gold and platinum discs she got, though she was very modest about it all," Bailey said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
What makes the 49th-anniversary box set particularly special is the inclusion of the extra discs.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026
The discs sprouted thin, wiry legs like spiders and skittered into the crowd, where they affixed themselves to Mr. Flux’s troops, delivering electrical charges that sent them yelping up and out of the fray.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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