Thesaurus results for CIRCUITED

circuited

verb

past tense of circuit

as in circled

to travel completely around after circuiting the exterior of the church, the procession headed inside

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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

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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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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

Definition of encircled

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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

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