as in encircling
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as in bordering
to serve as a border for
long lashes rimmed his eyes
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Recent Examples of rimming
Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Jan. 2026
Potential game-tying shots rimming in and out.
—Tarek Fattal, Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
Where to Eat and Drink Most dining options are concentrated in small towns rimming the Dark Sky area, like Paisley, Lakeview, Christmas Valley, Burns, and Fields.
—Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025
Verb
Set up a salt rimming station and let your guests have at it.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Jan. 2026
Potential game-tying shots rimming in and out.
—Tarek Fattal, Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
Where to Eat and Drink Most dining options are concentrated in small towns rimming the Dark Sky area, like Paisley, Lakeview, Christmas Valley, Burns, and Fields.
—Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rimming
Verb
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In northeastern Assam, the BJP is seeking to retain power by emphasizing a hard line on immigration, a long-standing and contentious issue in the state bordering Bangladesh.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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The bill, which requires agreement from other countries bordering the strait, would impose fees on shipping, energy transit, and food supplies passing through the waterway.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2026
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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The latter maintains an exuberant push-and-pull between Rushen’s electric piano, bounding with lightness and dexterity, and her classmate Bobby Bryant’s blaring tenor saxophone.—
Matthew Ritchie,
Pitchfork,
22 Mar. 2026
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Gray will play Lisa, an EMT and partner to the team of lifeguards bounding down Venice Beach.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Since then, the bustling market serves the surrounding and significant Latino community and others.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Znotins acknowledges that the airline makes prices for those non-connecting trips expensive to discourage non-connecting customers from booking them.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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Gateway is modified to first repair the old 1910 tunnel immediately and construct a more economical new tunnel (without expensive and unneeded bench walls and cross-connecting passageways) and link it directly into Penn Station.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Of course, many heading into those master’s degrees often majored in the same fields in undergraduate degrees, which already have high average annual earnings, explaining the marginal gains observed in the study.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Only a marginal threat of severe storms exists for parts of the East Coast, including eastern North Carolina, southeast Virginia and southern Maryland.—
Brandi D. Addison,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In 2025, an international jury awarded SLA the Rosa Barba Prize, one of landscape architecture’s most coveted honors, despite the project’s modest scale and peripheral address.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Mobile health clinics offer a powerful solution and should be integrated into core health-system strategy, not treated as peripheral outreach.—
Crystal Cene,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Then more joined, and soon full teams of girls were going up against the boys.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
23 Mar. 2026
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At times, groups of works are organized around joined tables, on top of which are placed perishables preserved in lead, resin, or plaster.—
Li Qi,
Artforum,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Rimming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rimming. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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