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radius

[rey-dee-uhs] / ˈreɪ di əs /


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Stubbornly high car prices are pushing more buyers to expand their search radius beyond state lines to find a deal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

A lower-risk zone with a 20km radius has also been delimited.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

By carefully adjusting the radius and depth of each cavity, they could control both the resonance wavelength and the vertical position of the optical mode.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

It was the only thing within a multi-gate radius — a landscape of breakfast smash burgers and pepperoni pizza bagels — that didn’t make me queasy.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

This difference in the forces would stretch our astronaut out like spaghetti or tear him apart before the star had contracted to the critical radius at which the event horizon formed!

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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