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as in bulbous
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as in smooth
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as in rolled
to form into a round compact mass
carefully rounded the dough and placed it on a cookie tray
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as in circled
to travel completely around
a monorail for visitors that rounds the park
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as in curved
to turn away from a straight line or course
rounded on the track and headed for the finish line
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Recent Examples of rounded
Sahana Jayaraman, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
Photos published by North Korean state media show the nose cone of the new missile to be more rounded than its predecessor, the Hwasong-18, another ICBM of the North using solid-fuel technology.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Related Articles For the occasion, Berry opted for a fiery red midi dress by Stella McCartney, featuring a rounded neckline and formfitting silhouette.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 23 Oct. 2024
Its curved and rounded edges just feel awesome in my hands.
—Scott Kramer, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Reporters used a combination of five approaches — from the simple to the complex — to generate predictions, then averaged across them to create the rounded election turnout projection of approximately 3,370,000 total voters.
—Sahana Jayaraman, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
Photos published by North Korean state media show the nose cone of the new missile to be more rounded than its predecessor, the Hwasong-18, another ICBM of the North using solid-fuel technology.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Related Articles For the occasion, Berry opted for a fiery red midi dress by Stella McCartney, featuring a rounded neckline and formfitting silhouette.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 23 Oct. 2024
Its curved and rounded edges just feel awesome in my hands.
—Scott Kramer, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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The colorful and bulbous case is made out of thick foam that completely envelopes the tablet.PCMAG, PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
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The sparkling hue helps accentuate the carbon-fiber body kit that includes a new front splitter, bulbous fenders in the front and back, as well as a giant rear wing.Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2024
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Returning from larger stomping grounds to run one of the state’s most diverse cities is not always the smoothest transition, political experts have said.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Trump thanked President Joe Biden for a smooth transition of power during their White House meeting.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Police fanned out downtown, launching a massive search for the gunman behind the double homicide while a helicopter circled overhead, broadcasting the suspect’s description.Teri Figueroa, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The heat hit hard and the men and the boys, who had been on foot for months, blended in with scrub brush and cactus, keeping an eye on the cartel gunmen camped on a ridge beneath a blue sky where vultures circled.Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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In the map created for the 2022 film, Gotham is three islands that are almost roundish, jagged circles connected by bridges, so the Tricorner Bridge is kind of like the Brooklyn Bridge, but not quite.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2024
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Eventually this network consolidates into roundish blobs, and two distinct phases arise—one enriched with LAT and the other with very little LAT but lots of other proteins.Trevor GrandPre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
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The bottle is housed in a custom spherical decanter embellished with peridot, emerald quartzite and 24 carat gold plating created by computational architect Michael Hansmeyer.Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Scientists describe it as a giant spherical shell around our solar system made of icy, comet-like objects.Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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The toy, named Psyduck—intended for humans—is a rotund duck-like creature prone to splitting headaches.Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
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Meet the rotund rascal Sir John Falstaff and the wise wives of Windsor in one of Shakespeare’s most raucous comedies.Joey Morona, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
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Newsletter Ever since the ancient Greeks first made observations of the circular Moon and the skies, scientists have known that the Earth is a sphere.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2024
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To clean the mesh grilles—the soft, wiry panels in the earbud—dip your toothbrush into a cup of micellar water, and while holding the earbud upright so the mesh is facing you, gently rub the bristles, in a circular motion, across each mesh panel for 15 seconds.Julia Ries, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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Entering the lobby, your eye is led from the sleek golden fireplace across the lavishly marbled floors sliced into vaguely astrological patterns to a pair of globular totemic sculptures by the Danish artist Nicholas Shurey.Liam Hess, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
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With that land submerged beneath an interior seaway, the predator roamed the waters in search of mollusks, turtles and other shelled creatures to crush with its globular teeth.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Rounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rounded. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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