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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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By then, Pahlavi was surrounded by a younger entourage of analysts and advisers, some of whom were brash figures once associated with the country’s reformist student movement.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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Coming into March Madness, much of the conversation around TCU women’s basketball surrounded the dynamic duo of Olivia Miles and Marta Suárez.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Mar. 2026
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The suspect then circled and drove directly at another officer, the report states.—
S.E. Jenkins,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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The Ducks circled the wagons to win 6-5 in a bonus frame.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
23 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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Opposite the pump lies a dead body, haphazardly covered with half a sheet of cardboard and encircled by black flies.—
Elena Clavarino,
Air Mail,
14 Mar. 2026
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Donadio was a regular at the Italian Pavilion, whose gleaming glass atrium was the sun around which publishing orbited in the Seventies and Eighties.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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The political careers of the governor and former vice president have orbited each other but never crossed since Newsom was sworn in as San Francisco’s mayor and Harris as the city’s district attorney on the same day in 2004.—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
20 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 27 Mar. 2026.
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