circled

verb

past tense of circle
1
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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2
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 Holloway has spent the decade since assembling one of the great featherweight résumés in company history, which is why a fight nobody circled in 2013 now headlines the biggest week on the UFC calendar. — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 As astronauts circled the Earth, aquanauts moved into seafloor labs. — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026 Photographers and tabloid reporters circled incessantly — but not on the first day of autumn in 1996. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026 The two embraced and kissed as an NBC New York helicopter circled overhead. — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 1 July 2026 In this case, neither side could confidently trumpet the science, even though their arguments circled around it. — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 1 July 2026 All season, Shamea and Porsha have circled each other, barely uttering a direct word, but the tensions seep to the rest of the group, trickling into every interaction. — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 June 2026 The party was already underway in April, when the Artemis 2 mission circled the moon. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 29 June 2026 The Delta pilots circled the airport, in a procedure called a go-around, before landing safely on their second attempt. — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circled
  1. surrounded
  2. orbited
  3. encircled
  4. traversed
  5. ringed
  6. crossed
  7. rounded
Verb
  • The controversial issue that arose on July 8 surrounded a police interview with Robinson’s roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 9 July 2026
  • Recently released pictures show his coffin next arriving in Karbala, surrounded by masses of people.
    — Jamie Gray, NBC news, 9 July 2026
Definition of surrounded
Verb
  • Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravitation had since explained why the moon orbited Earth and why tides occurred.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 2 July 2026
  • The satellite has orbited Earth about once every hour and a half for more than two decades, and over time, friction with particles in the upper atmosphere has caused its orbit to decay.
    — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026
Definition of orbited
Verb
  • In the 1940s, the Queen switched rings, and began wearing a ladylike large pearl, encircled with diamonds.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
  • He was encircled by his Netherlands team-mates, including substitutes, who raced to embrace him.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of encircled
Verb
  • Some traffic traversed the strait on Tuesday, according to data and analytics company Kpler, which verified 41 crossings compared to 36 on Monday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • The first Spanish expedition to California in 1542 was followed about 220 years later when Gaspar de Portolá and Franciscan monk Junipero Serra traversed the coastal lands.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of traversed
Verb
  • In photo images shared by the Parks and Rec Department, an outdoor trash barrel sits ringed by bags of refuse collected next to a playing field.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026
  • The normally wide-open expanse at the city’s heart has been ringed with security fences for weeks, ahead of World Cup–viewing parties, the Great American State Fair, and the 250th event on July 4.
    — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
Definition of ringed
Verb
  • On Saturday, 19 vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz in either direction, but only one openly signaled its inbound transit along the Omani coast, Kpler data show.
    — Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Unlike last year, however, no Russian drones or missiles crossed the sky above the campsite on their way toward Kyiv.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026
Definition of crossed
Verb
  • The 26-year-old from Canada rounded second and slid headfirst into third to beat the relay throw, getting a huge ovation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • The music team is rounded out by two longtime Parton collaborators, Richard Dennison and Gregg Perry sharing music arrangements and vocal arrangements.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 July 2026
Definition of rounded

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