surrounding

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Surrounding rock layers suggest that the fossils date to the Early Miocene, approximately 21 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025

Surrounding areas of Bissau were more deserted, and there were few people in reopened markets, AFP journalists said.

From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025

Surrounding Yeoh with a cast of familiar actors may ease skeptics into that mission.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2025

Surrounding a brown prickly Christmas tree were old magazines, throw blankets, hurriedly discarded socks, all the trappings of an ordinary life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025

Surrounding them were dead plants and scorched rocks.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown