girdled

past tense of girdle

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Verb
  • In total, Movistar Plus+ International, the international sales arm of Movistar Plus+, the biggest Spanish pay TV/SVOD operator, has unveiled 35 licensing pacts, some wrapped in co-production arrangements.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The terrorists lead me out of the vehicle, still wrapped in the blanket.
    Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The church building, circled by a parking lot and a large lawn, is near residential areas and a Jehovah’s Witness church.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The jet circled that area a few times before landing in Birmingham.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of pumping in conventional air conditioning, it was surrounded by proprietary glass panes filled with cooled water.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • One of the best places to stay is Villa Paola, a former 16th Century convent surrounded by a Mediterranean garden that overlooks the white beaches and rocky cliffs of the Costa degli Dei (Coast of the Gods).
    Gary Portuesi, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By Saturday evening, the fire crew successfully encircled the entire perimeter of the fire in control lines.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • After eons of construction, the bandages came off Willoughby Square last year to reveal Abolitionist Place, a one-acre enclave of greenery, water, leisure, and play designed by the landscape-architecture firm Hargreaves Jones and encircled by skyscrapers.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Location and Set Curb traversed the city of Los Angeles for the majority of its twelve seasons.
    THR Staff, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The project has traversed an impressive festival circuit, developing through labs at Dharamshala, Film Bazaar, HAF and Cannes.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The young, cool star is orbited by four inner planets, one of which has just formed a large moon in the aftermath of a giant impact, followed by an asteroid belt, four gas giants, a Kuiper belt, and an Oort cloud.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In 2024, Menon was part of a four-person crew of private astronauts who orbited Earth for five days as part of the Polaris Dawn mission.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Behind the facility, a large parking lot is ringed with fences topped with razor wire.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That aged Scottish owl was found two miles from where it had been ringed nearly a quarter of a century before.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Girdled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girdled. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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