Thesaurus results for CIRCLED

circled

verb

past tense of circle

as in surrounded

to form a circle around everyone circled the lectern and waited their turn to read from the Bible

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as in orbited

to travel completely around with a look of extreme frustration, the commander circled the new recruit

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Recent Examples of circled As astronauts circled the Earth, aquanauts moved into seafloor labs. — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026 In this case, neither side could confidently trumpet the science, even though their arguments circled around it. — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 1 July 2026 The party was already underway in April, when the Artemis 2 mission circled the moon. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 29 June 2026 The Delta pilots circled the airport, in a procedure called a go-around, before landing safely on their second attempt. — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 25 June 2026 The two embraced and kissed as an NBC New York helicopter circled overhead. — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 1 July 2026 Photographers and tabloid reporters circled incessantly — but not on the first day of autumn in 1996. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026 All season, Shamea and Porsha have circled each other, barely uttering a direct word, but the tensions seep to the rest of the group, trickling into every interaction. — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 June 2026 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

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The area last week was surrounded by surveillance cameras and patrolled by National Guardsmen as lifelong resident John Cates strolled the area.

— 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

Definition of surrounded

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The satellite has orbited Earth about once every hour and a half for more than two decades, and over time, friction with particles in the upper atmosphere has caused its orbit to decay.

— Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026
As presently blueprinted by NASA, the International Space Station will be de-orbited via a series of actions.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 23 June 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

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According to the hiking blog, The Hiking HI, the rock bridge can only be traversed at low tide, but can be treacherous either way.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
On a recent visit, the water traversed a smoky 10-foot canyon of charred foam and twisted wall panels on its way to the drain.

— Mack Baysinger Follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026

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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

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On Saturday, 19 vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz in either direction, but only one openly signaled its inbound transit along the Omani coast, Kpler data show.

— Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Unlike last year, however, no Russian drones or missiles crossed the sky above the campsite on their way toward Kyiv.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026

Definition of crossed

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A bit sweet from sugar, a bit acidic from vinegar, a bit spicy from hot sauce, and rounded out with neutral oil, this homemade vinaigrette recipe is the perfect all-purpose salad dressing.

— Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 July 2026
The marque's showcase is rounded out by the exceptionally rare 1962 Maserati 5000 GT, an Allemano-bodied grand tourer developed at the request of the Shah of Iran.

— Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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