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 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 The National Park Service sought public information assistance while helicopters, newly absent a landing pad, circled searching between towering canyon walls. — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 31 Aug. 2026 Military helicopter circled overhead, searching for survivors, assessing the disaster and mapping out possible rescue and evacuation routes. — Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 Military helicopters circled overhead, searching for survivors, assessing the disaster and mapping out possible rescue and evacuation routes. — Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026 Some fans had circled Monday on the calendar because of an apparel collection that combines Disney characters with all 32 NFL teams. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2026 For those grocers running a produce department, that date's already been circled in red, because sweet potato casserole shows up on most American tables in late November. — Phil Lempert, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 Nearly all of the Bears players circled the cart to wish him well before he was taken into the locker room. — CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026

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Lenin and Trotsky believed that their Bolshevik Revolution would succeed only when the Soviet Union was surrounded by other Communist states.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
Leary said that once the riders were surrounded on the bridge, police took them into custody without incident.

— Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of surrounded

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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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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
As the airplane air-conditioning worked overtime in the desert heat, the grooms traversed the tarmac numerous times to shuttle water and supplies to the horses.

— Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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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
Standard galactic black holes are ringed by a thick doughnut of gas and dust, which can block most X-rays.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of ringed

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Just east of the creek – which was crossed by a stone bridge built in 1896 – Monticello's main street branched north from the highway near Gunn Ranch.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2026
This includes images from Mars rovers starting in the 1990s and data showing that both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 crossed into interstellar space in the 2010s.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of crossed

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Rocchio rounded first base, reached second and raced toward left field, his teammates chasing after him like a swarm of honeybees following their queen.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) and Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) rounded out the top three.

— Nathan Diller, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026

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