cylindrical
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Enviva pioneered the business of pressing sawdust into cylindrical capsules and shipping boatloads of them to overseas power plants looking to burn an alternative to coal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
One of them is typing furiously as his eyes dart from the screen to the robot: "The idea is it will grab that cylindrical piece and move it over there."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
These dimensions point to a thick, cylindrical body.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
Varda makes automated labs that look like cylindrical desktop speakers, which it sends into orbit in capsules and satellite platforms it also builds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
We walk across the glass, which is now a floor rather than a ceiling, through a cylindrical room with glass walls.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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