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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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Less than 12 seconds later, the vehicle was off the runway, but the plane had already started circling the airport.—
Aaron Cooper,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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Sewell's been absolute granite at tackle, and now he's got Micah circling the matchups on his calendar.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Despite questions surrounding his confirmation, Hegseth secured support in January from all but three Republicans to become Defense secretary with a 51-50 vote as Vice President JD Vance broke the tie.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Assembled over three years, Bolaño’s rubric was simple, surrounding herself with pieces that inspired creativity.—
Keith Flanagan,
Architectural Digest,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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An unforeseen contribution from Juno Juno, meanwhile, has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, collecting information on the giant planet's internal structure, magnetic field, and atmosphere.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Case For Planet Y Simulations show that a world with a mass between Mercury and Earth, orbiting between 100 and 200 AU from the sun and tilted at least 10 degrees, could nudge the Kuiper Belt's plane into a tilt.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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 wife of the Las Vegas Raiders running back joined Tim Tebow, Mark Teixeira, Brett Favre, Bruce Pearl and others in offering their thoughts and prayers for Kirk and his family.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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That position began to change in 2015, in the joined Air France-KLM and Hop!—
Aleksandra Bal,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Mainland investors continue to accumulate the stock via Southbound Stock Connect, as shown in the attached chart.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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There’s also an attached three-car garage on the premises.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Ninety new Deutsche Bahn train cars will soon come to Germany's rail system, marking the beginning of a new age of connected mobility for the transportation company.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The home screen has large buttons for arming and disarming the system, and below that are panels for the lock, the doorbell, any other connected devices, Trusted Neighbor, and Alerts.—
John R. Delaney,
PC Magazine,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Encircling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encircling. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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