as in encircled
to form a circle around
she was surrounded by cheering fans within moments of scoring the winning goal
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Recent Examples of surrounded
The area last week was surrounded by surveillance cameras and patrolled by National Guardsmen as lifelong resident John Cates strolled the area.
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Justine McDaniel,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Piles of meat, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes surrounded the early risers.
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Cbs News Philadelphia Staff,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
But across the water, toward the finish line, a golden clock surrounded by ivy on the side of Centre Court is just about visible as the sun rises.
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Caoimhe O'Neill,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
The club is located in Lancaster County, surrounded by chicken and dairy farms that give off a pungent odor of fermenting feed and manure.
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ABC News,
1 July 2026
You’re surrounded on all sides by a progression of paintings moving from dark to light.
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Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
He was surrounded by Iranian flags, Egyptian fans donning King Tutankhamun headdresses and people who had made entire outfits out of their nation’s colors — all mixed among Pride flags.
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Sam McDowell 1,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
Rosemaund sits in the agricultural heart of Herefordshire, surrounded by apple orchards and red, barley‑growing soils.
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Lewis Chester,
Robb Report,
27 June 2026
Fatty acids are long chains of carbon surrounded by hydrogen atoms.
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Rosemary Trout,
Scientific American,
27 June 2026
Justine McDaniel,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Piles of meat, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes surrounded the early risers.
—
Cbs News Philadelphia Staff,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
But across the water, toward the finish line, a golden clock surrounded by ivy on the side of Centre Court is just about visible as the sun rises.
—
Caoimhe O'Neill,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
The club is located in Lancaster County, surrounded by chicken and dairy farms that give off a pungent odor of fermenting feed and manure.
—
ABC News,
1 July 2026
You’re surrounded on all sides by a progression of paintings moving from dark to light.
—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
He was surrounded by Iranian flags, Egyptian fans donning King Tutankhamun headdresses and people who had made entire outfits out of their nation’s colors — all mixed among Pride flags.
—
Sam McDowell 1,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
Rosemaund sits in the agricultural heart of Herefordshire, surrounded by apple orchards and red, barley‑growing soils.
—
Lewis Chester,
Robb Report,
27 June 2026
Fatty acids are long chains of carbon surrounded by hydrogen atoms.
—
Rosemary Trout,
Scientific American,
27 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surrounded
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The island had gone from farm and pasture in the nineteenth century to nature preserves and residential property in the twentieth, its silvery shingled homes encircled by forests and deer.
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Today, the Green is encircled by Whitfield, Broad, Park and Boston streets.
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Holloway has spent the decade since assembling one of the great featherweight résumés in company history, which is why a fight nobody circled in 2013 now headlines the biggest week on the UFC calendar.
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As astronauts circled the Earth, aquanauts moved into seafloor labs.
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The grand French state beds of the 18th century traditionally encompassed a kit that included a bed frame, canopy, mattress, sheets, pillows, coverlet, and bolster.
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Black cultural beauty standards have historically encompassed a wider range of body types including curvier, fuller figures which have been part of the aesthetic framework in ways that have offered some protection from the thin ideal.
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Set high on the Eordea Plateau and ringed by Lakes Vegoritida and Petron, the region is cooler and drier than the rest of Greece in summer, with temperatures hovering in the 80s.
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Annie and her husband, Tommaso Cioni, drove the roughly ten minutes to Nancy’s sprawling brick ranch, ringed by cacti, in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood.
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The slideshow on social media showed Kelce’s backyard transformed into a lush, floral garden as the pair embraced and showed off Swift’s new ring — a large diamond set in yellow gold.
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Embrace Heirloom Plants Lowrie says Terrain customers have increasingly embraced heirloom plant varieties with long-flowering traits.
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