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as in surrounded
to form a circle around
tall cypress trees ringing the park
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as in circled
to travel completely around
the line of season ticket buyers ringed the block
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Recent Examples of ringed
Everyone settled into folding chairs ringed around folding tables.
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Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
For years until fuel expired, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the region ringed with particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field to understand more about them.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
The stratovolcano rises nearly 7,000 vertical feet above the valley floor, and the top portion of the peak is shrouded in white year-round and ringed by seven different glaciers.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 10 Mar. 2026
The bodies were found packed under 8 feet of snow in a small depression ringed with trees and boulders, the Sierra Avalanche Center reported.
—Sacbee.com, 9 Mar. 2026
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Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
For years until fuel expired, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the region ringed with particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field to understand more about them.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
The stratovolcano rises nearly 7,000 vertical feet above the valley floor, and the top portion of the peak is shrouded in white year-round and ringed by seven different glaciers.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 10 Mar. 2026
The bodies were found packed under 8 feet of snow in a small depression ringed with trees and boulders, the Sierra Avalanche Center reported.
—Sacbee.com, 9 Mar. 2026
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Where the hill of Fiesole begins to climb, but still in Florence, that’s where the quiet idyll of Il Salviatino begins, a 15th-century villa surrounded by a 13-acre park just 10 minutes away from the Duomo (Santa Maria del Fiore) and a 25-minute ride from the airport.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Apr. 2026
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If your lawn is surrounded by weeds, gophers may be attracted to the area, dining on the roots of the weeds on the way to your lawn.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
11 Apr. 2026
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The Ducks’ season circled the drain previously, during a nine-game plummet across December and January.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
8 Apr. 2026
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Monday's lunar flyby — where the astronauts circled the moon — marked the farthest humans have ever traveled into space.—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2026
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The latter was accompanied by the most striking choreography of the night, as a mass of humans encircled and swallowed Reznor at the end of the song, inviting him to join them in their amorphous horde.—
Jeff Miller,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2026
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How to Get Around Koh Chang is almost entirely encircled by one main road, and the island doesn't have any private tuk-tuks or taxis.—
Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Apr. 2026
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Every element had been carefully considered, Tabitha noted, the suave austerity of the Wassily chairs orbited by antique rugs and estate-sale paintings.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
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Hydrogen atoms are the simplest nuclei, with a single proton orbited by an electron, so that’s typically what physicists have used for their experiments to measure the proton’s charge radius.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 Apr. 2026
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Igra added that a friend who traversed the route months later and wound up in the jail as well also remembered the soup and had been telling her children about it for years.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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Only 10 ships have traversed the strait in the last 24 hours.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Ringed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ringed. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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