ring-shaped

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The company opened a sprawling ring-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and employs roughly 166,000 workers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 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

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

The connectors bonded to specific sites on the poles, creating a sheet with ring-shaped voids, a bit like a chain-link fence.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 4, 2024

In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife