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Recent Examples of semicircle
About 30 children were sitting in a semicircle around a tree, said Alec Egan, the birthday girl’s father.
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
One striking photograph, discovered in a family album, shows a group of German soldiers sitting in a semicircle, playing cards in the buff.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
On the southern arc of the semicircle, Russia has thus far not sought to drive northeast from Debaltseve—possibly because of difficult terrain and stubborn Ukrainian defenders—and has instead launched an attack from Donetsk north through Avdiivka.
—Frederick W. Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2022
On a recent weekday in July, a group of young girls sat in a semicircle awaiting instruction before striking orange HomeDepot buckets with their drumsticks.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 22 July 2024
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
One striking photograph, discovered in a family album, shows a group of German soldiers sitting in a semicircle, playing cards in the buff.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
On the southern arc of the semicircle, Russia has thus far not sought to drive northeast from Debaltseve—possibly because of difficult terrain and stubborn Ukrainian defenders—and has instead launched an attack from Donetsk north through Avdiivka.
—Frederick W. Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2022
On a recent weekday in July, a group of young girls sat in a semicircle awaiting instruction before striking orange HomeDepot buckets with their drumsticks.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 22 July 2024
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