Thesaurus results for SURROUNDED

surrounded

verb

past tense of surround

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 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 She’s surrounded by distinctive, lovable yet deeply flawed characters. — Judy Berman, Time, 8 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 Recently released pictures show his coffin next arriving in Karbala, surrounded by masses of people. — Jamie Gray, NBC news, 9 July 2026 The controversial issue that arose on July 8 surrounded a police interview with Robinson’s roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs. — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 9 July 2026 Altadena horticulturist Leigh Adams said Boyle Heights plants and produce already live in a difficult environment, surrounded by industrial warehouses that spread contaminants daily. — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026 When the earthquake struck, Villafaña was in a fourth-floor room at the Santuario La Llanada hotel, formerly known as Negra Hipólita, perched on a hillside surrounded by vegetation in La Guaira, the state hardest hit by the twin earthquakes. — Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026 They’ll be surrounded by one of the starriest ensemble casts in recent memory, as the likes of Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh, Josh Brolin, and Charlotte Rampling also appear in the film. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 8 July 2026

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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.

— Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Today, the Green is encircled by Whitfield, Broad, Park and Boston streets.

— Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

Definition of encircled

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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.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
As astronauts circled the Earth, aquanauts moved into seafloor labs.

— Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

Definition of circled

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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.

— Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 1 July 2026
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.

— Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of encompassed

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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.

— Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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.

— Irin Carmon, Vulture, 29 June 2026

Definition of ringed

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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.

— Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 4 July 2026
Embrace Heirloom Plants Lowrie says Terrain customers have increasingly embraced heirloom plant varieties with long-flowering traits.

— Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026

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