semicircle
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For instance, traveling from the North Pole to the South Pole along Earth's surface follows a semicircle, which represents the shortest possible route on a sphere.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026
When you put it on you see before you four empty wooden chairs ranged in a semicircle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Doors opened and shut, and people began to emerge, gathering into a semicircle.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
Rivas hit “record” on her phone as a semicircle of trucks and vans came into view.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
I glance up and see my parents and people from different blocks kneeling in a semicircle around us.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
“Feeling valued” and “adding value” form semicircles around the target, and an outer circle replicates the four domains for each of the “value” categories in the adjacent inner ring.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2022
The device is a decidedly un-cuddly thing: two squat semicircles joined to one other.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022
He draws his characters in a way that initially suggests minimal emotion: their eyes are dots, their mouths small semicircles.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
About five years ago, the artist Gabriel Orozco started printing colorful stickers that mimic the geometry of his abstract paintings: semicircles and quarter-circles in red, gold, white and blue.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2017
Some people around Welch cut tires into two semicircles, painted them white, and used them as edging for their gardens.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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