as in circled
to travel completely around
after circuiting the exterior of the church, the procession headed inside
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As drones circled overhead, messages spread on WhatsApp, warning people to open their windows so that they wouldn’t be shattered by blasts.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2026 -
The Nuggets were prioritizing forward depth on the buyout market in recent days, sources told The Post, but ball-handling was a key attribute team officials had circled in addition to size and versatility on the wing.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
2 Mar. 2026
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The Boise State men’s basketball team has traversed the 2025-26 season without a true team leader, instead relying on individual nights of brilliance from one of several players to win games.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Mar. 2026
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In that same period, the total distance traversed by ships in the Arctic increased 111%.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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But as the title character and a partial avatar for Williamson — who had similarly spent his own teen years dreamily pining and aspiring to be a filmmaker — Dawson was the boy-next-door pillar around which the show orbited.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four planets on compact orbits close to their star, and all of which are seen to transit.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Much like snowballs are composed of clusters of snowflakes, planetesimals likely arose within the disks of dust that encircled the newborn sun from clouds of pebble-sized objects pulled together by their mutual gravitational attraction.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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As is tradition for royal brides, Meghan wears a Welsh gold wedding band, and around their one-year wedding anniversary in May 2019, Harry gave Meghan an eternity ring encircled in diamonds.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
26 Feb. 2026
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Clippers forward Nicolas Batum turned the ball over on the ensuing possession when his foot crossed the boundary while inbounding the ball.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Would have fit in well with the Avs, had a deal crossed the finish line there.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Circuited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circuited. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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