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also cylindric
as in spherical
shaped like a cylinder
a cylindrical oil tank a cylindrical tower
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Recent Examples of cylindrical
From a helicopter, the idea is to drop a solid, cylindrical column of water on the flames.
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Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Rescue efforts were in their third day on Wednesday, with a red cylindrical metal cage being painstakingly lowered into the mine to extract survivors and corpses.
—Reuters, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Mazda’s deal with Panasonic dates back to 2023, when the two Japanese companies signed a procurement deal for cylindrical lithium-ion cells.
—Michael Taylor, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
What’s left frames the dramatic cylindrical hairspring within a large tourbillon cage at 6 o’clock.
—Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2025
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Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Rescue efforts were in their third day on Wednesday, with a red cylindrical metal cage being painstakingly lowered into the mine to extract survivors and corpses.
—Reuters, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Mazda’s deal with Panasonic dates back to 2023, when the two Japanese companies signed a procurement deal for cylindrical lithium-ion cells.
—Michael Taylor, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
What’s left frames the dramatic cylindrical hairspring within a large tourbillon cage at 6 o’clock.
—Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cylindrical
Adjective
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The spherical venue holds 17,600 seats and has 167,000 individual speakers.—
Mesfin Fekadu,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Jan. 2025
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Some with thermal bonding technology and higher-end materials can get so spherical that the dynamics and the trajectory change.—
Elias Burke,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Deadline first told you about the first deal out of Sundance: Neon’s $15 million global pickup of Michael Shanks’ horror movie Together starring Dave Franco, Alison Brie and Damon Herriman.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2025
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That means using the output of one AI bot to train another AI bot, rather than training the second bot on the full global database used by the first.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Kohler Sunstruck oval tub is standard in the primary bathroom if this layout is chosen.—
Benjamin C Tankersley,
Washington Post,
1 Feb. 2023
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This simple opener works well on circular cans but may not be effective on dented, square, or oval cans.—
Maya Polton,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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Accent sleek lines and curved pieces with wood trim, stone surfaces, and metal frames paired with ovoid forms.—
Lindsey Mather,
Architectural Digest,
5 Dec. 2024
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Brody hand-tore pieces of colorful tissue paper into ovoid forms, then affixed them to raw canvas.—
Caitie Kelly Lindsey Tramuta Lauren Cochrane Angela Koh Laura Bannister Gisela Williams,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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My other friends would teach me how to throw and catch that once-strange oblong object.—
Peter Ji,
Hartford Courant,
4 Feb. 2025
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The tiny, oblong seeds were used by ancient Mesoamerican cultures, including the Aztecs and Mayans, as far back as 3500 B.C.—
Annie Peterson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Jan. 2025
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“Cylindrical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cylindrical. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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