Thesaurus results for CIRCLED

circled

verb

past tense of circle

as in surrounded

to form a circle around everyone circled the lectern and waited their turn to read from the Bible

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as in orbited

to travel completely around with a look of extreme frustration, the commander circled the new recruit

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Recent Examples of circled For the Connington family, it has been circled for much longer. — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026 Survivors wheeled and circled above the wreckage for days, and injured birds straggling ashore were killed by Angelenos looking for a free meal. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 Before the season started, plenty of baseball fans had this weekend circled in red. — James Ward, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026 Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander has circled one last start at Comerica Park before hanging it up. — Chris Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Or the pilots could have just aborted the landing at that point and circled to try again. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026 According to tracking site FlightRadar24, the plane, which bears the tail number N212ML, appears to have circled off the Bahamian coast before disappearing from radar. — Hanna Park, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026 In layman's terms, you are being paid to take the unlock that everyone already circled. — Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026 The jumpship circled the fire while the spotter—a smokejumper who oversees the mission from the air—leaned out the door to assess it. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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Silly, witty, and sociable, the duo moved to Durham Cottage in London, where there were happy days surrounded by everyone from John Gielgud to Graham Greene, Orson Welles, John and Mary Mills, Noël Coward, and William Wyler.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
Her work surrounded them, and her studio, the grandest space in the house, stood open just beyond the living room.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

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The $496 million GRAIL probes orbited the moon in an extremely low orbit, coming within 30 miles (50 km) of the lunar surface at their closest approach.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026
In fact, just one spacecraft, NASA’s MESSENGER, has ever orbited the planet.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2026

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Ironically, the city’s position in a beautiful valley—encircled by the ridges of the Cumberland Plateau, at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains—also led to some persistent environmental issues.

— Daliah Singer, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
The soccer ball, muddy from outside, is encircled in one arm.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of encircled

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The starry event has traversed the globe from New York City to London to Paris to LA and with each location the celebration of fashion, celebrity, and performance has reached new heights.

— Glamour, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2026
To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest.

— Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of traversed

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Outside a rehearsal space in this city ringed by mountains, opera singer Michael Kuhn was practicing fly casting.

— Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2026
If your glasses always come out of the dishwasher looking cloudy or your faucets are ringed with white residue, hard water could be the reason.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of ringed

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As the freshman crossed into the end zone, the stadium went dead silent in shock.

— Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
The team calculated a combined measure of heat and humidity that sets a lethal limit for modern endotherms and found that threshold was never crossed anywhere in their Cretaceous simulations.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of crossed

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But Kyle Isbel rounded out the bottom of the order with a 2-run blooper to left to give the Royals a 2-1 lead.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026
Huntington, West Virginia; Shreveport, Louisiana; Gulfport, Mississippi; and Brownsville, Texas, rounded out the bottom five.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

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