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Recent Examples of radius
Smithville offers not one, but two wine bars within a block or so radius.
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Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
There are several communities within a 200-mile radius of the volcano that could be impacted in the event of an eruption, including Pedro Bay, Port Alsworth and Anchorage, according to the NPS.
—ABC News, 11 July 2025
The roof’s materials were sourced from local sustainable loggers and sovereign tribal groups, all within a 300-mile radius of the airport.
—AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
Outraged, Gauguin located an obscure French law that proved only children within a four-kilometre radius of a school were bound to attend.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
There are several communities within a 200-mile radius of the volcano that could be impacted in the event of an eruption, including Pedro Bay, Port Alsworth and Anchorage, according to the NPS.
—ABC News, 11 July 2025
The roof’s materials were sourced from local sustainable loggers and sovereign tribal groups, all within a 300-mile radius of the airport.
—AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
Outraged, Gauguin located an obscure French law that proved only children within a four-kilometre radius of a school were bound to attend.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radius
diameter
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When the new study’s team returned in 2020 and 2021, 43 percent of the sample sites had new, young trees with trunks that were at least two inches in diameter at chest height—something researchers hadn’t seen since the 1940s.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 July 2025
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The planet killer that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs was estimated to be roughly 6 miles (about 10 kilometers) in diameter.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
25 July 2025
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“Radius.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radius. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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