radius

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

From BBC • Apr. 5, 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

“Markets are panicked as investors fear that the blast radius of the Iran attack may be larger than initially suspected,” he wrote in a note Wednesday.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Although many Apollo samples showed strong magnetism, some scientists argued that the Moon's small core, which measures only about 1/7th of its radius, would have struggled to sustain a powerful magnetic field.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

Everybody with fingers in a twenty-mile radius showed up and was hired on the spot.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison