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as in traverses
to travel completely around
the first ship to circumnavigate the globe
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as in bypasses
to avoid by going around
we can circumnavigate the traffic jam if we take the next exit
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Recent Examples of circumnavigates
Enchanted Circle Drive The Enchanted Circle Drive circumnavigates Wheeler Peak, the highest mountain in New Mexico, and cuts through the lush Hondo Valley, past the Taos Pueblo, and into old gold mining towns.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumnavigates
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The project also calls for several banquet rooms, as well as a 6-foot-wide waterfront walkway, open to the public during business hours, that traverses the perimeter of the property.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
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In two seasons, released in 2022 and 2025, the show traverses the Star Wars galaxy to show what means people employ to consolidate power and what risks others take to stop empire.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Sep. 2025
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Publishizer’s business model bypasses the traditional route to commercial publishing, in which authors must first win an agent, who then approaches large commercial publishers.—
Elaine Pofeldt,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Instead, the command silently downloads Shamos, bypasses macOS Gatekeeper protections, and installs the malware.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Location and orbit revealed The team calculated that the moon circles Uranus about 35,000 miles (56,000 kilometers) from the planet’s center.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Aug. 2025
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His falcon still circles, but the sky above Gaza offers no axis, no return path, no center to descend toward, only a deepening orbit around an absence no language can fill.—
Alaa Alqaisi
August 13,
Literary Hub,
13 Aug. 2025
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But the Free Speech Coalition said companies might still be liable if a user in a state requiring age verification circumvents geographic targeting with a VPN.—
Jasmine Mithani,
Them.,
3 Sep. 2025
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Unfortunately, this entire process circumvents the necessary regulatory and congressional oversight processes.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
19 Aug. 2025
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Each element encircles a central void, which Robertson describes as symbolic thresholds–portals between identities, spaces, and ideas.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Of course, the vote passes and the Imperial Fleet encircles the planet, all according to plan.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
9 Aug. 2025
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Shifting key conversations to group settings builds alignment, avoids silos and saves time.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The new system avoids this brute-force approach.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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Juno orbits Jupiter once every 33 days, and the trajectory brings the spacecraft through intense radiation belts trapped by the planet's powerful magnetic field.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Neptune orbits the sun from, on average, 30 astronomical units (one AU is equivalent to the distance from Earth to the sun).—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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This rare timing means the eclipse occurs on the doorstep of the September equinox, when the sun crosses the celestial equator, marking the start of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and fall in the north.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Directed by veteran action filmmaker Art Camacho, the film follows Tony (Foster), a former Marine trying to rebuild his life as a mechanic—until his brother (Collins) crosses the wrong people and ignites a violent chain of events.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Circumnavigates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumnavigates. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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