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enframing

verb

present participle of enframe

as in surrounding

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When a single cell in a repeating lattice cracks or punctures, the surrounding identical cells immediately follow suit, causing a chain-reaction collapse.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
Following Masias’ detainment, immigration agents who milled about the parking were nonresponsive to the protesters, who shouted at them through the locked fence surrounding the Moss building as Sacramento Fire Department personnel treated Masias.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2026

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The source material provides Memoirs with an in-baked, flowery-yet-mannered visual language, and set designer Scott Pask has built off of it to transform the space of the musical, performed in the round, into an enfolding, velveteen club.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
That gallery feels like the perfect frame for Aitken’s work, at once spacious and enfolding, spare and receptive to all that visual and sonic plushness.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026

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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

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As of last week, the NCAA reported some 200 lawsuits filed since its approval of the new eligibility model in June, encompassing roughly 850 plaintiffs in a variety of sports.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
The study’s authors stopped short of claiming the coinciding diversification of Cretaceous plants and oviraptorosaurs (the larger dinosaur group encompassing caenagnathidae) are directly related.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026

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Corporations have responded with caution, especially in regulated sectors like banking and healthcare, confining deployments to narrow pilots whose early returns are far more modest than AI enthusiasts advertise.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026
Potentially containing trillions of parameters — values learned during training — frontier models require vast computing resources, largely confining them to data centers, where they can be more easily monitored and, in principle, switched off.

— Robert Hart, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of confining

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The waiver, which ACS received in 2023, allowed the agency to place multiple juvenile detainees to sleep in hallways, classrooms and chapels, potentially restricting access to educational and other programming.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2026
But for kids, restricting certain foods may lead them to become preoccupied with those foods.

— Bryn Beeder, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of restricting

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In quick succession, the Court began circumscribing Congress’s ability to define rights and act on its constitutional imagination.

— Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
This wouldn’t be the first time the Court has avoided a head-on fight with the other branches, especially after Congress makes noise about circumscribing its authority.

— Time, Time, 14 Nov. 2025

Definition of circumscribing

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Adding to the drama of her appearance, Harvey opted for a voluminous updo, piling her long chocolate brown locks atop her head, leaving out a combed-over, face-framing strand styled by Davontae’ Washington.

— Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
Yet when asked to move beyond answering questions to framing their own, many struggled.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026

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