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enframed

verb

past tense of enframe

as in surrounded

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And last year, two littermate kittens were hit a few hundred feet apart on a busy street surrounded by Naples subdivisions.

— Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning.

— Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026

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Instead, the Houthis resumed fighting stronger than ever, launching a blistering offensive that seized the entire Red Sea coast, encircled Yemen’s third city of Taiz, and positioned themselves to threaten the anti-Houthi capital of Aden.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Nov. 2026
Al-Mughayyir, a town of 3,000 increasingly encircled by Israeli settlements, is about seven miles from Deir Jarir — the trip can take over an hour due to military checkpoints.

— Suheir Hashimeh, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026

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Where the Eleousa pressed mother and child cheek to cheek and Cassatt enfolded mothers around their infants, de Monteflores goes further, disappearing the mother’s face entirely behind her child’s.

— Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
But the idea of a single galaxy’s stars being enfolded into the Milky Way is intriguing and worthy of further study, Battersby said.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 May 2026

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The original home was built by William Smith Coffee Daniell II, a landowner whose property encompassed over 21,000 acres.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election encompassed Cambridge Analytica.

— Emma L. Briant, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2026

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Photos taken by her field partner, Sonya Maple, a co-author on the paper, show Karapetrova knee-deep in fresh snow, ringed by peaks, the only signs of people the two women’s ski tracks and footprints.

— Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
The tables were draped in salmon-pink tablecloths and ringed with bright red chairs, and each plate had a napkin folded into a swan.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

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Freedom House's 2026 assessment describes a political system in which parties are banned and freedom of expression and assembly are sharply restricted.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 14 Nov. 2026
Once the lockout begins, teams will be restricted from communicating with the players on their 40-man rosters.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026

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The opposition has broadly backed the investigation but has framed Netanyahu’s allegations as an effort to undermine the outcome.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Some art work and furniture had disappeared; a pair of palm trees that once framed the vista out to the sea were gone.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

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But as an American of Chinese heritage, her travel was circumscribed by the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
In the course of the film, Hargitay reevaluates her mom, forming a fuller picture of how Mansfield’s career choices were circumscribed by the egregious sexism of the 1950s and ‘60s.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026

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