Thesaurus results for ENCIRCLES

encircles

verb

present tense third-person singular of encircle

as in traverses

to travel completely around communication satellites encircling the earth

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to form a circle around immediately after announcing their engagement, the couple was encircled by their applauding friends

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Recent Examples of encircles The butterfly encircles Larsson's eye, with its wings spanning the whole area from her inner brow to well past its tip. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 6 July 2026 In the center of Washington Park is a lagoon, which once weaved in a crescent shape around a peninsula in a configuration that annoyed boaters, but now encircles a central island called Bynum Island. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 15 June 2026 The Chicago Outerbelt, a 210-mile trail that encircles the city, intrigued our copy editor. — Diane Penningroth, Midwest Living, 12 June 2026 Many travelers choose to explore the area via the Ring of Kerry, the scenic drive that encircles the peninsula. — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2026 The tubing with inline emitters, shown at bottom, encircles a citrus. — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026 The polar jet stream is a ribbon of air that encircles the Northern Hemisphere at high altitudes and determines atmospheric pressure patterns. — Evan Bush, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026 Instead, a bright ring of sunlight encircles the moon's silhouette, often called a 'ring of fire'. — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2026 This 22-mile network of trails and parks is built along a historic railway corridor that encircles the city. — Lia Picard, AFAR Media, 29 Jan. 2026

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In your periphery to the left, a spacewalker traverses the exterior of the station.

— Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 26 July 2026
The Golden State might be a West Coast utopia, but then Californians live on a fault line that traverses most of it.

— Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026

Definition of traverses

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Eventually a ring of low-lying islands forms, built from the skeletons of the reef that surrounds it.

— NPR, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026
Scientists have spent years trying to understand how an animal — this animal — can survive for centuries, and a new study has now added another layer to the mystery that surrounds these predators by looking directly at their heart.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of surrounds

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The job search can be a draining process, especially when applications go unanswered, AI hysteria circles the internet, and interviews end with little to no feedback.

— Alyshia Hull, USA Today, 28 July 2026
Whenever the calendar comes out, Amanda Mendoza VanCleave circles the dates.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of circles

Verb

Worlds with no sun Every planet in our Solar System orbits the sun, but not all planets are so fortunate.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which already orbits the moon, should provide before and after photos of the wreckage site in the next few weeks.

— Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of orbits

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The comeback saga rings ever so true for those in the movie theater industry, and for those millions of moviegoers who love to watch dazzling images on the huge silver screens of theaters.

— Adam Aron, Variety, 29 July 2026
An old folk verse prices a simple life at two riyals for beans and one for bread — only half of that tune still rings true.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of rings

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The Bridge program rules dictate that if a patient has a BMI of 35, but their sleep apnea crosses the threshold from mild to moderate, they are disqualified from gaining access to a GLP-1 through the Bridge initiative.

— Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Their path eventually crosses that of Greta, an Italian doctor whose empathy and resilience shine through the situation.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 July 2026

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