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circuited

verb

past tense of circuit

as in circled

to travel completely around after circuiting the exterior of the church, the procession headed inside

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In some cases, the participants circled around actual roundtables, while some were standing in small huddles standing in the corners of the room.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
The orbiter's science orbit circled Mars on an extreme path, approaching as close as 227 miles (365 kilometers) and extending as far out as 49,710 miles (80,000 km).

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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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

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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

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Berger spent a year and a half at the company from 1994, where his paths crossed with Basner.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2026
She was denied asylum under a Biden-era border policy that restricted eligibility for many migrants who crossed the southern border outside official pathways.

— Mick Krever, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

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