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Recent Examples of roundishImpact craters, unlike other roundish holes in the ground, say from ancient collapsed volcanoes, will often cause specific anomalies in magnetic and gravitational fields.—Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2019 The storage unit is perfect for round (or roundish) bottles, which make the most use of the space.—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2022 There’s a roundish globe, a more triangular bulb, and an oval shape.—WIRED, 5 Sep. 2022 When baked to perfection, Savillum resembles a roundish pancake or omelet, slightly yellowish and with an overcooked surface.—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for roundish
Hanging from the ceiling are globular pendant lamps (from the French brand DCW Editions).
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Julie Lasky,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.
To do this, the team used a robotic arm equipped with a force and torque sensor to measure air flow in hundreds of spots inside a short model duct to build up a map that shows the unstable danger points in a circular duct and safer ones where the air currents cancel one another out.
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David Szondy
August 02,
New Atlas,
2 Aug. 2025
This circular rash, often with a clear center, gradually expands outward and may have the characterstic bull’s-eye appearance.
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