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circumambulated

verb

past tense of circumambulate
as in traversed

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  1. traversed
  2. crossed
Verb
  • 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
Definition of traversed
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  • As the freshman crossed into the end zone, the stadium went dead silent in shock.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The team calculated a combined measure of heat and humidity that sets a lethal limit for modern endotherms and found that threshold was never crossed anywhere in their Cretaceous simulations.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026
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“Circumambulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumambulated. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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