as in circling
to travel completely around
the moon orbits the Earth
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Recent Examples of orbiting
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.
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Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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, 4 Sep. 2025
The overlap between devoted Monopoly heads and Wicked stans is, well, two separate circles, orbiting each other but never meeting in the middle.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
That means spacecraft orbiting Mars are in play.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Due to the quality at which Juno is operating, today, planetary scientists are seeking a further 3 year extension of Juno, leaving only a tiny gap during which Jupiter will be devoid of having an operational scientific spacecraft orbiting it.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
The technology uses the Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 chip inside to communicate with Skylo’s network, which includes high-orbiting geostationary satellites from Viasat and Echostar.
—PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Cardman, a member of a joint NASA and SpaceX mission known as Crew-11, captured her footage while orbiting above the South Pacific Ocean.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
They are found concentrated in the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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, 4 Sep. 2025
The overlap between devoted Monopoly heads and Wicked stans is, well, two separate circles, orbiting each other but never meeting in the middle.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
That means spacecraft orbiting Mars are in play.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Due to the quality at which Juno is operating, today, planetary scientists are seeking a further 3 year extension of Juno, leaving only a tiny gap during which Jupiter will be devoid of having an operational scientific spacecraft orbiting it.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
The technology uses the Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 chip inside to communicate with Skylo’s network, which includes high-orbiting geostationary satellites from Viasat and Echostar.
—PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Cardman, a member of a joint NASA and SpaceX mission known as Crew-11, captured her footage while orbiting above the South Pacific Ocean.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
They are found concentrated in the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orbiting
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“Orbiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orbiting. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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