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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
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.
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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
Luhrmann has also unearthed some hypnotic clips of Elvis performing live in Hawaii in 1957, wearing a shimmering gold jacket, his neck ringed with a lei.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
The frame is ringed by two dozen bottles for collecting water samples, like a flower with 24 petals.
—New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
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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
Luhrmann has also unearthed some hypnotic clips of Elvis performing live in Hawaii in 1957, wearing a shimmering gold jacket, his neck ringed with a lei.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
The frame is ringed by two dozen bottles for collecting water samples, like a flower with 24 petals.
—New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ringed
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My friend Thai, whose parents were part of the Weather Underground leadership, remembers his father, Jeff Jones, coming home one day to find their family’s Hoboken apartment surrounded by cops—a fire inspector had spotted his tiny crop of marijuana plants on the fire escape.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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More than a dozen police and emergency vehicles surrounded a U-Haul truck cordoned off with caution tape outside the stadium.—
Suryatapa Chakraborty,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The ball circled the rim twice before dropping on Friday night, delighting Duke and its fans and crushing LSU.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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According to flight-tracking data online, at least one of the helicopters circled Rock’s estate four times over a three-minute span.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
30 Mar. 2026
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Instead of forming a concentric pattern around Katmai, the ash encircled Novarupta.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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Just beyond this mess, a chain-link fence encircled the site of the lodge.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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The world’s first lunar visitors orbited the moon on Apollo 8.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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That might lead to comparisons with Apollo 8 — the first mission to fly humans to the moon in 1968 — but Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders orbited the moon.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Some 80 oil and gas tankers a day typically traversed the Strait of Hormuz before the war, The New York Times noted.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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The landscape—rolling hills, thick forests, and lush river valleys—lends itself to hiking and biking, and the park is also traversed by the Green and Nolin rivers, which offer plenty of opportunities for boating and fishing.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Ringed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ringed. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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