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Perhaps more importantly, the inserter is thinner—a 3.7 mm diameter to Paragard’s 4.75—with a rounded tip designed to make pushing the tube through the nerve-dense cervix and into the uterus less painful.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

The largest trees in the thinned stands were 20% bigger in diameter than those in the unharvested control areas.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

For the Magic 8 Ball, it was figuring out how the answer block could float without developing air bubbles, since his version is about an inch in diameter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Upon arrival, the Fire Department located five separate spot fires, all about five feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Its diameter is about half the earth’s, its surface desert-like, marked by huge mountains and deep canyons.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

Which is to say, Porsche invented an entirely new flat-six—different bore diameters and everything—just to clear 11 centimeters under the engine cover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

PM 2.5 refers to the level of tiny, hazardous particles - with diameters that are 2.5 micrometres or smaller - that can enter bloodstreams though the lungs.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

They have up to 24 arms and can grow to diameters of more than three feet.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

The larger, so-called coarse particles, have diameters between 2.5 and 10 micrometers; some examples of this type of particulate matter include wind-blown dust, fly ash and animal or vegetal particles.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023

The halo when complete consists of two large circles whose diameters are constant, 45 and 92 degrees.

From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth