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Recent Examples of convex
The face buttons are responsive with a convex shape while the triggers have a nice give to them.
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Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
One current project concerns convex optimization in non-Euclidean settings.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024
The pectoral and pelvic fins on male fish are slightly larger than the female fins, and the base of the anal-fin is straight in females but convex in males, researchers said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
By shifting from traditional convex lenses to concave lenses, Ray-Ban has created a disruptive design that challenges the norms of eyewear.
—Quincy Green, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
One current project concerns convex optimization in non-Euclidean settings.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024
The pectoral and pelvic fins on male fish are slightly larger than the female fins, and the base of the anal-fin is straight in females but convex in males, researchers said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
By shifting from traditional convex lenses to concave lenses, Ray-Ban has created a disruptive design that challenges the norms of eyewear.
—Quincy Green, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convex
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His eyesight was failing and his eyes were bloodshot and protuberant.Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
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Hours and hours of rubbing abrasive pumice across the roughened marble resulted in the lustrous surfaces of the sculpture, including the high sheen of Pan’s taut chest and ribs, muscular right arm, and protuberant belly.William A. Wallace, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
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Image The island is home to some of the most iconic, and unusual, mammals on earth, species like orangutans, pygmy elephants and proboscis monkeys with their bulbous noses.Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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The second photograph contains a wet, bulbous, red lump held between two fingers and pierced by a needle guiding a black thread, possibly in reference to the stitching of the perineal tear after childbirth.Jenny Wu, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2024
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Venues may also offer opportunities to purchase limited-edition merchandise or have in-suite ice machines—or, in the case of the Vegas Golden Knights’ T-Mobile Arena, an entire ice room, churning out spherical cubes and clear ice for cocktails.Brett Knight, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
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The series of insights began in 1972, when Hawking showed (opens a new tab) that a black hole’s size — specifically its spherical surface area — always increases in proportion to the mass of whatever falls into it.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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The Galaxy Buds Pro also feature a streamlined, minimally protrusive shape that allows for limited contact with the open air and a unique chamber and mesh filters that cut out disruptive wind interference for clearer-sounding calls no matter the weather.Zarah Kavarana, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2021
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Lumbar support on the mesh back is very good and the curve is well-placed and protrusive enough to support my slightly more pronounced back curvature perfectly.Corey Gaskin and Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020
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“Convex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convex. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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