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The yen was last trading at 160.20 against the dollar, remaining close to a 40-year low of nearly 164 after the round of joint intervention failed to reverse the currency’s downtrend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Shein was valued at $100 billion in a 2022 funding round but has been hit hard by the loss of a U.S. loophole that had let it ship low-cost products tariff-free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Alonso's side have won all three of their matches this season, beating Fulham and Brighton in the Premier League, and have also reached the third round of the Carabao Cup with victory over Luton Town.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Jain added that it was “silly that you can earn rewards buying a round of drinks at a bar, but not paying your rent every month.”
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Wolf thought it a huge game, and pranced round them with a big wolf smile.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Witkoff and Kushner have held several rounds of talks with Russia as part of Washington's mediation push, with the last visit to Moscow in January.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The number of pure defence startups around Munich has doubled to around 60 in recent years, according to the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry, while drone makers have been announcing bumper fund-raising rounds.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Djokovic suffered a similarly queasy wipeout a few weeks ago at a tournament in Cincinnati, but this was his first loss in 20 opening rounds at the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Itauma - who had never gone beyond six rounds professionally - admitted before the fight that he had never even sparred 12 rounds.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Or, rather, if you were only depressed while doing your rounds and pretending to be interested in practicing, as opposed to studying, medicine?
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The pod-like leaf called a spathe is slightly rounder and paler than the darker, flatter blades of seagrass.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Matijevich’s go-to lentils to cook are French green lentils, which are smaller and rounder in size compared to green lentils.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
Your mileage may vary, but know that the best gingerbread cookie in Disneyland is actually inside the park at the Harbor Galley, where the cookies are smaller and rounder but also spicier and chewier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Humans, by contrast, possess rounder heads and much flatter faces.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2025
By about half a million years ago, human fossils had diverged from older Homo erectus skeletons in their enlarged, rounder, and less angular skulls.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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“Maybe the roundest in the universe,” Joachim Ullrich, the physicist who runs the German metrological institute and oversees the Avogadro Project, told me.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2018
More than seven feet in diameter, it was, Tom Wolfe once wrote, “the biggest roundest bed in the history of the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2017
The size of Ping-Pong balls and coated with the superconductor niobium, the spheres were the roundest objects ever created by human beings.
From US News ● May 5, 2011
According to Adidas it was the roundest ball ever invented.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2010
He had the roundest, deepest voice I’d ever heard.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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