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as in circling
to travel completely around
communication satellites encircling the earth
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as in encompassing
to form a circle around
immediately after announcing their engagement, the couple was encircled by their applauding friends
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Recent Examples of encircling
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
22 May 2026
Bad weather postponed a major construction project on Atlanta's primary highway encircling the city last weekend, but now the traffic chaos is here.
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Irene Wright,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
By using drones to interdict supply lines from a distance, Ukrainian forces can impose the effects of a siege without physically encircling a city, redefining how an opponent can be isolated in modern warfare.
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Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
Heck, even the names in the Ring of Honor encircling the stadium between its decks will be vulnerable to being cloaked by FIFA branding or advertising signage.
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Kansas City Star,
12 May 2026
Chopard’s charming—and chiming—Beehive Clock, a table clock standing nearly a foot tall with seven tiers of rounded glass segments encircling a multi-level mechanical movement, stood out among the new releases for the same reason the Nautilus desk watch (Ref.
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Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
11 May 2026
The upper features criss-crossing straps across the toes and skinner straps encircling the ankle.
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Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
4 May 2026
Existing storage facilities within Beijing’s Sixth Ring Road—an encircling expressway about 15 to 20 miles from the city center—are limited to storing a maximum of three drones or 10 core components while also being required to undergo police inspections.
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Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
Curve around the city on the Trout Run Trail, an 11-mile asphalt loop encircling the historic downtown.
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Sarah Miller,
Midwest Living,
29 Apr. 2026
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Styled by Brad Goreski, Moore wore a custom cobalt blue Self Portrait gown with an oversized bow encircling the hips, falling into a train.
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Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
22 May 2026
Bad weather postponed a major construction project on Atlanta's primary highway encircling the city last weekend, but now the traffic chaos is here.
—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
By using drones to interdict supply lines from a distance, Ukrainian forces can impose the effects of a siege without physically encircling a city, redefining how an opponent can be isolated in modern warfare.
—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
Heck, even the names in the Ring of Honor encircling the stadium between its decks will be vulnerable to being cloaked by FIFA branding or advertising signage.
—
Kansas City Star,
12 May 2026
Chopard’s charming—and chiming—Beehive Clock, a table clock standing nearly a foot tall with seven tiers of rounded glass segments encircling a multi-level mechanical movement, stood out among the new releases for the same reason the Nautilus desk watch (Ref.
—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
11 May 2026
The upper features criss-crossing straps across the toes and skinner straps encircling the ankle.
—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
4 May 2026
Existing storage facilities within Beijing’s Sixth Ring Road—an encircling expressway about 15 to 20 miles from the city center—are limited to storing a maximum of three drones or 10 core components while also being required to undergo police inspections.
—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
Curve around the city on the Trout Run Trail, an 11-mile asphalt loop encircling the historic downtown.
—
Sarah Miller,
Midwest Living,
29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encircling
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The system, which serves 100,000 residents in Iowa City and its surrounding, mostly rural communities, typifies the challenges most libraries face.
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Since then, the bustling market serves the surrounding and significant Latino community and others.
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Variety has learned that Mubi is pursuing the film, with Neon also possibly circling.
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Other wearable tech companies have been circling this space.
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The saints’ days are celebrated, the great days of history are celebrated, and they’re celebrated with this sort of enormous exuberance and deep investment that is somehow very, very touching, very embracing, and very inclusive.
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If a planet is orbiting the closer star, its gravity also slightly bends this light.
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But the extraordinary interest in the IPO was driven by Musk’s plans to make the company an AI leader — including plans to launch orbiting satellite data centers powered by the sun that crunch AI data.
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Znotins acknowledges that the airline makes prices for those non-connecting trips expensive to discourage non-connecting customers from booking them.
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Gateway is modified to first repair the old 1910 tunnel immediately and construct a more economical new tunnel (without expensive and unneeded bench walls and cross-connecting passageways) and link it directly into Penn Station.
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Thursday saw the highest number of vessels traversing the strait since April, according to marine intelligence firm AXSMarine.
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The West Coast From Christchurch, the TranzAlpine train climbs westward, up and over the Southern Alps, traversing large viaducts which span roiling rivers.
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Kar, the company’s CEO, was a founding team member at Palo Alto Networks and oversaw Juniper Networks’ entire Ethernet portfolio before the two joined forces at Auradine, a blockchain and AI chip startup where Upscale was incubated.
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The 28-year-old has won eight Grands Prix across nine seasons for Ferrari, having initially joined the joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016.
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Underneath the mesh fabric, the speaker has a flat, plastic base with a physical mute switch on one side near the attached power cord.
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The beast screamed and flew away, pulling an attached anchor into the water.
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“Encircling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encircling. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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