ring-shaped

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From its humble beginnings when the founders worked out of Jobs’ family garage, Apple has ballooned over the last five decades, opening a sprawling ring-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and employing roughly 166,000 workers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Also known as the Chagos Archipelago, there are around 60 individual islands, grouped together in seven ring-shaped coral atolls.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

"Because we understood the underlying mechanisms, we could more quickly identify the right processing conditions to produce high-quality parts using the ring-shaped beam," says Chen.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2024

Some placentas have evolved to be disklike, some are leaf-shaped, some ring-shaped, heart-shaped; some are ridged, branched, labyrinthine, or weblike.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2024

Wiping with his dirtcolored rag the ring-shaped water stains they had left on his marble Refreshments Counter.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy