CIRCUMNAVIGATING Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

circumnavigating

verb

present participle of circumnavigate

as in circling

to travel completely around the first ship to circumnavigate the globe

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as in bypassing

to avoid by going around we can circumnavigate the traffic jam if we take the next exit

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Recent Examples of circumnavigating The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four astronauts are preparing to take off on the mission of a lifetime — circumnavigating the moon and returning humans to deep space for the first time in five decades as part of Artemis II. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026 Superpressure balloons can last for months and travel long distances, potentially circumnavigating the globe, all the while reporting their position. — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2026 Two hundred seventy-two miles of scenery are signposted by pretty blue and orange ribbons circumnavigating the island, representing the ocean and those ubiquitous mandarins. — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2023

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Verb

These are the questions circling in the aftermath of Tuesday’s bloodbath.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
The Hollywood Reporter first reported in October 2025 that Driver was circling the project.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of circling

Verb

The failure may not come from an attacker bypassing a security control but from an authorized system taking an action that was technically permitted but operationally wrong.

— Rick Vanover, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
The Pan-Arctic Cable project could also extend to Canada and eventually link with Japan and South Korea, notably bypassing the United States.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of bypassing

Verb

Feast on fresh fruits, pastries, cold cuts, omelettes, and traditional foul mudammas while traversing the ancient waterway.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
The rest of the bill features a wide-ranging list of artists traversing country, rock, hip-hop, electronic and more.

— Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of traversing

Verb

His largely disappointing tenure ended when the Clippers had to forfeit five first-round draft picks and were fined $30 million for circumventing salary cap rules in regard to how Leonard was compensated.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Finally, the lawsuit said Brave violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing technological measures the NYT and other content owners use to restrict access to their articles.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of circumventing

Verb

The trio currently share the orbiting lab with four other people — Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and cosmonauts Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov and Sergey Teteryatnikov.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Nov. 2026
What has been hard to miss is the way pharmaceutical companies have been orbiting around the redefinition of Alzheimer’s.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of orbiting

Verb

Alternately, Senate leaders could wait to pass the bill until daylight saving time resumes next March, avoiding an awkward midwinter time jump.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
These guidelines address avoiding delays in pregnant women and discuss the safety to perform MRIs without contrast and CT scans with contrast.

— Elyce Cardonick, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of avoiding

Verb

The encircling coils generate the magnetic field needed to confine the plasma, while the smaller shaping magnets fine-tune its configuration.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
Captured by the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, or SMILE, the footage reveals the full ring of auroral activity encircling Earth's north pole in ultraviolet light, stretching across both the night and day sides of our planet.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of encircling

Verb

This is immediately clear upon crossing the threshold, when the atmosphere takes on a futuristic tone, as a corridor of Ando’s signature industrial concrete and light wood lattices carries visitors deep inside the building.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
Her intentions were made clear in exchanges on social media with Bowden, who harshly criticized Honeycutt for crossing party lines, particularly for talking with Ocasio-Cortez.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of crossing

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