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

These include 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to build proteins and all four of the ring-shaped molecules that make up DNA - adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

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

Fina takes out her binoculars, some Twizzlers, and a big bag of Donitas—these crunchy ring-shaped Mexican snacks her mom lets her have in her lunchbox on Fridays.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish