1
as in circling
to travel completely around
communication satellites encircling the earth
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as in encompassing
to form a circle around
immediately after announcing their engagement, the couple was encircled by their applauding friends
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as in surrounding
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Recent Examples of encircling
Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
Nonetheless, its economy has largely adapted to Western sanctions, and Russian forces are advancing in the Donbas, now encircling the city of Pokrovsk and steadily advancing toward Kostyantynivka.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Russia is close to encircling two key Donetsk towns, Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka, and may effectively put Ukrainian troops defending these two hubs under siege in the coming weeks.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
Twenty years after it was first proposed, Louisville officials are making progress toward the goal of completing the Louisville Loop, a 100-mile bicycle and pedestrian trail encircling the city, but another two decades of construction may be on the horizon before the project is finally finished.
—Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 23 July 2025
One audience member, a lifelong resident, commented that funnelling fleeing motorists into a single highway encircling the lake would be dangerous.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025
The flower has a row of large outer petals (guard petals) encircling a center of petalodes or small, narrow yellow inner petals.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
Numerous tour operators offer boating excursions encircling it.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
The team created a system of panels and hinges that stretch locally to overcome the difficulty of encircling curved objects with flat sheets without creases.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
No other spacecraft has probed beneath the clouds encircling Jupiter the way that Juno has, or has imaged our Solar System’s largest planet so comprehensively and over such extended periods of time.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
Nonetheless, its economy has largely adapted to Western sanctions, and Russian forces are advancing in the Donbas, now encircling the city of Pokrovsk and steadily advancing toward Kostyantynivka.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Russia is close to encircling two key Donetsk towns, Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka, and may effectively put Ukrainian troops defending these two hubs under siege in the coming weeks.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
Twenty years after it was first proposed, Louisville officials are making progress toward the goal of completing the Louisville Loop, a 100-mile bicycle and pedestrian trail encircling the city, but another two decades of construction may be on the horizon before the project is finally finished.
—Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 23 July 2025
One audience member, a lifelong resident, commented that funnelling fleeing motorists into a single highway encircling the lake would be dangerous.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025
The flower has a row of large outer petals (guard petals) encircling a center of petalodes or small, narrow yellow inner petals.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
Numerous tour operators offer boating excursions encircling it.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
The team created a system of panels and hinges that stretch locally to overcome the difficulty of encircling curved objects with flat sheets without creases.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encircling
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The outlet also reported that a fire alarm was sounding continuously and that a helicopter was circling overhead.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Royal Oak parking meters will be closed during the festival to avoid traffic and circling cars looking for spots.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Additionally, Florida's Miccosukee Tribe claimed the facility impacted its access to the surrounding area and posed risks to the tribe's food and water supply.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Parts of it would be carved up and grafted onto surrounding Democratic-leaning districts, and a significant portion would be added to a new Latino-majority seat in central Los Angeles County, basically leaving Calvert with a viable district from which to seek reelection.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The saints’ days are celebrated, the great days of history are celebrated, and they’re celebrated with this sort of enormous exuberance and deep investment that is somehow very, very touching, very embracing, and very inclusive.—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
2 Sep. 2025
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While most satellite internet services operate from single geostationary satellites orbiting Earth at about 22,236 miles, Starlink is a constellation of thousands of satellites that operate from a low-Earth orbit, about 341 miles up.—
Eric Lagatta,
AZCentral.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Just the same, the Chiefs still have some stuff going for them that no one else in the NFL does — all orbiting around the mind-meld between one of the greatest offensive minds in league history and one of its most special talents.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
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That same sense of gravity is felt by golfers traversing the dynamic dunes.—
Tim Corlett,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Sure, there were attacks and counterattacks and waves of soldiers traversing across No Man’s Land.—
Michael Jerome Plunkett
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The brain is surrounded by a layer of tightly joined cells, called the blood-brain barrier, that acts as a bouncer turning away any substances deemed unworthy of accessing our most precious resource.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
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More joined after the sixth, which Sánchez ended with a swinging strikeout of Jorge Polanco.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The wooden floor has rotted through, and only a few flimsy stairs remain attached to telephone poles, which once propped up the tower.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
3 Sep. 2025
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Carry it as a clutch or wear it over the shoulder with the attached chain strap.—
Melody Kazel,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Israel’s internal conflict, the unfolding war in Gaza and the hostage situation are all connected to the battle over our country's identity.—
Ron Scherf,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Lectra is helping the industry move faster, smarter, and more connected than ever before.—
SJ Studio,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Encircling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encircling. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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