Thesaurus results for CIRCUITED

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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Fittingly, the presentation featured models walking a path that circled around 10 horses inside a riding hall in the Bois de Boulogne.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
In Paris on Monday night, a police helicopter circled over Place de la Republique overnight, a central point in the weekend clashes, sweeping the square with a searchlight to check that the curfew was being observed.

— Tom Nouvian, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of circled

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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

Definition of traversed

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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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Shamsan said fighting had intensified across the province as the Houthis deployed reinforcements to multiple fronts, with the city encircled on all four sides.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Phil Ochs said that the last of the idle rich and the folk singers are in a mansion being encircled tighter and tighter.

— Madeline ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of encircled

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Likely landing in seventh place is Sony’s Resident Evil, which crossed $400 million at the global box office in its seventh weekend of release.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 1 Nov. 2026
Scarecrows found their way to the United States once immigrant farmers crossed the Atlantic.

— Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2026

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