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Purines were ringlike molecules with a central core of six carbon atoms that were known to be involved in the building of DNA.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Purines were ringlike molecules with a central core of six carbon atoms that were known to be involved in the building of DNA.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Purines were ringlike molecules with a central core of six carbon atoms that were known to be involved in the building of DNA.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Located in southwestern Alaska off Bristol and Kuskokwim Bays, this ecoregion is composed of steep, sharp, often ringlike groupings of rugged mountains separated by broad, flat valleys and lowlands.

Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA) 2009

In 1865 F.A. Kekule intuited the shape of the ringlike benzene molecule by dreaming of a snake biting its tail.

The Puzzle Of Genius 2008

To Jonathan Ive, who heads Apple's design studio, the new laptop isn't a knockoff of a mollusk, but a bubble, figuratively blown from the ringlike recessed plastic loop that works as the machine's handle.

Apple?S Ibook: A Mac To Go 2008

The design is a little bit unusual for a sofa, but there is plenty of room for two people on the comfortable seating surface surrounded by its generously upholstered ringlike back and armrests.

Jacaranda Modern Sofa by Joaquim Tenreiro 2007

I take it reader has seen pictures or photographs of the moon and that I need not describe the broader features of that landscape, those spacious ringlike ranges vaster than any terrestrial mountains, their summits shining in the day, their shadows harsh and deep, the gray disordered plains, the ridges, hills, and craterlets, all passing at last from a blazing illumination into a common mystery of black.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

It had a long narrow head with a conical snout, narrowing in ringlike stages.

Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

The lens is lens-shaped (of course) and is about a third of an inch in diameter: All around its rim is a ringlike suspensory ligament, which joins it to a portion of the choroid layer immediately behind the iris.

The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963