[Tex/LaTex] Adding a small colored rounded box around inline text

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Is it possible to write a command using TikZ to produce a small rounded and colored box around a piece of text, inside sentence? I know the \framedbox command gives a rectangle around a piece of text (but not a rounded rectangle as far as I know).

I guess one could also adjust the color of the background when using framebox (using tips from answers to this question), but I don't think it could help with other factors such as the box's edge-width, the amount of roundness, etc.

The following picture was produced with Inkscape for the purpose of the question.

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Either use TikZ directly or tcolorbox with \tcbox and a lot configurable settings.

If such boxes should appear more than once, a \newtcbox is appropiate, setting the options there and just saying \inlinebox{foo} etc.

As can be seen from the direct usage of \tcbox that the margins are too wide, but the \inlinebox has a nicer look, there the margins are set with left=... and right=... and boxsep=...

\documentclass{article}

\PassOptionsToPackage{svgnames,x11names,dvipsnames}{xcolor}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

\newtcbox{\inlinebox}[1][]{enhanced,
 box align=base,
 nobeforeafter,
 colback=cyan,
 colframe=Green4,
 size=small,
 left=0pt,
 right=0pt,
 boxsep=2pt,
 #1}

\begin{document}

Hello \tcbox[enhanced,box align=base,nobeforeafter,colback=cyan,colframe=Green4,size=small]{World} -- what do you expect from the year \inlinebox{2019}?


\end{document}

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