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[raund] / raʊnd /










NOUN
unit of ammunition
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The format has not been formally approved, but one scenario would give the top eight seeded teams a first-round bye and a home game in the second round.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Plus, a massive round of layoffs and leadership shake-ups took place this week, affecting about 6 percent of Netflix’s staff—its deepest workforce cut in four years.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Microsoft could direct more of its next round of spending toward its own chips, or use that option to negotiate better terms on GPUs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Seeking a fourth term, Lula is now targeting the 33.4 million Brazilians who stayed away from the first round -- more than one in five eligible voters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

My father will be at his office, and Tuesday mornings are when my mother makes her weekly round of social calls.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Grynspan performed best on average in the first five rounds of informal polling, again coming top Friday -- despite the two vetoes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

That would be Snell’s side project between rounds of video games — 2K specifically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Singapore rounds out the week with September inflation figures on Friday, with both headline and core price growth expected to pick up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Thursday, former England footballer Alex Scott stepped away from Disney+'s coverage of the Women's Champions League after two rounds of matches.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

I drove the thoughts from my head and ripped at the shoe buttons with the buttonhook, yanking so savagely that one of the abalone rounds snapped free and rolled under the cot.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“But I’ve had a couple Duckhorns that I thought were outstanding wines. It’s a rounder wine, but it’s great if it’s done well.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

Zayd sits on the edge of the worn sofa and hugs himself, his eyes rounder than usual.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

“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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