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 Heading into the season, the Chargers might have circled Sunday’s game against Houston on their calendar. — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026 Haula got a touch on Brian Dumoulin’s outlet pass at the red line before Kenny Connors skated it down, circled behind the net and found Haula down low for a backhand goal, his third of the season. — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026 Chase Sui Wonders is being circled to join filmmaker David Mikalson’s Goblin for A24, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026 An evidence photo from the Epstein files, with its number circled in red in the lower right corner. — Daniel Ruetenik, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 Oh, and April 16 is circled on the calendar as well as Estela and Iowa visit Maia and Northwestern in Evanston for a tennis match. — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026 Over the past 100,000 years, Halley's Comet has probably circled the sun well over a thousand times, leaving a fresh trail of debris on every visit. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Democrats have circled Alaska, a typically reliable Republican state, as a winnable seat in their bid to flip the Senate in the 2026 midterm elections. — Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026 The shooter circled, appearing to search for signs of life, and fired again. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026

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And last year, two littermate kittens were hit a few hundred feet apart on a busy street surrounded by Naples subdivisions.

— Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning.

— Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of surrounded

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But this may not be the final death of all the planets that once orbited the now-dead star.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Endeavour orbited the Earth 4,671 times and traveled more than 122 million miles, which is about the same distance from Earth to Mars.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of orbited

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Instead, the Houthis resumed fighting stronger than ever, launching a blistering offensive that seized the entire Red Sea coast, encircled Yemen’s third city of Taiz, and positioned themselves to threaten the anti-Houthi capital of Aden.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Nov. 2026
Al-Mughayyir, a town of 3,000 increasingly encircled by Israeli settlements, is about seven miles from Deir Jarir — the trip can take over an hour due to military checkpoints.

— Suheir Hashimeh, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of encircled

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The candidates in the New York governor's race traversed the state on Sunday, looking to score late points with voters ahead of Tuesday's election.

— Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Up until that point, Australia had been the only continent to dodge the virus which has traversed the globe, leaving a trail of carcasses in its path.

— Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026

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Photos taken by her field partner, Sonya Maple, a co-author on the paper, show Karapetrova knee-deep in fresh snow, ringed by peaks, the only signs of people the two women’s ski tracks and footprints.

— Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
The tables were draped in salmon-pink tablecloths and ringed with bright red chairs, and each plate had a napkin folded into a swan.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of ringed

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Leo's mention of bridges in his homily resonated with Laiana Córdoba, who drove 20 hours and crossed the border from Cascavel, in southern Brazil, to hear it.

— ISABEL DEBRE, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
Flournoy was briefly considered for the State Department, but this threshold had already been crossed by Madeleine Albright and Clinton herself, while the Pentagon was still waiting for its first-ever female chief.

— Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of crossed

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Junior center Clara Silva rounded out the double-digit scorers with 10 points and eight rebounds.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Nov. 2026
Subway, Verizon Wireless, Bengay, Spotify, Pedialyte, Hot Pockets, LG, Icy Hot and GE rounded out the top 10 list of bipartisan brands.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026

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