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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
It will be ringed by a red, white and blue stage under a towering arch featuring stars and stripes patterns and two large screens carrying the action live.
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Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
It will be ringed by a red, white and blue stage under a towering arch featuring stars and stripes patterns and two large screens carrying the action live.
—Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
Growing up in India, Shubhangi Seth had always imagined her dream wedding on the mesmerizing shores of Italy’s Lake Como, ringed by stunning alpine peaks and piercing blue water.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 May 2026
Grand Geneva Resort and Spa, Lake Geneva Geneva Lake, ringed by resorts, vacation homes, and 19th-century mansions, is anchored by the town of Lake Geneva on its east end.
—Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
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Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
It will be ringed by a red, white and blue stage under a towering arch featuring stars and stripes patterns and two large screens carrying the action live.
—Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
Growing up in India, Shubhangi Seth had always imagined her dream wedding on the mesmerizing shores of Italy’s Lake Como, ringed by stunning alpine peaks and piercing blue water.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 May 2026
Grand Geneva Resort and Spa, Lake Geneva Geneva Lake, ringed by resorts, vacation homes, and 19th-century mansions, is anchored by the town of Lake Geneva on its east end.
—Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
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Metal barricades surrounded Madison Square Garden and police checkpoints were up around Penn Station as city officials scrambled to prevent a repeat of Wednesday night’s chaos, when dozens of fans were taken into custody after the Knicks’ historic comeback.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
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Entering his fourth year on the Falcons’ defensive line, Harrison is surrounded by new faces and new skill sets after a makeover on the interior.—
Daniel Flick,
AJC.com,
13 June 2026
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department responded to the shooting with several deputies and a helicopter that circled Jennings’ home.—
Seamus Bozeman
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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The mission will build on the Artemis II flight conducted in April, during which four astronauts circled the moon, traveling farther from Earth than any other previous space mission.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
9 June 2026
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Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
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Her daughter, Soraya, had taken refuge there with her three children, Christina, Charbel, and Elias, after fleeing Debl, a Christian border village now encircled by Israeli troops.—
Euan Ward,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Not by measure alone, but presence — a dynamic force that others orbited.—
Dan Robson,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Tito orbited Earth 128 times and even did some science experiments.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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Despite his complicated feelings about the reservoir itself, his favorite cottonwood in the hundreds of miles of canyons he’s traversed is on the main body of water, near a kink in the canyon known as the Rincón.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
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Named after a Norwegian ship that traversed the North and South poles at the turn of the 20th Century, Fram2 sought to pay homage to its namesake with a pioneering polar voyage of its own.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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“Ringed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ringed. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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