surrounds

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But might that title be more accurate, she is asking, if changed to “Do As I Say, Not As Everyone and Everything That Surrounds You Does”?

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2011

Eventually, these jottings resulted in a book of poetry, “The Border Surrounds Us,” and a harrowing novel, “The Lizard Cage,” about imprisoned Burmese dissidents.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2010

Surrounds them, but no drop of blood is shed.

From Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts by Morris, Lewis, Sir

But, lady! now a deeper gloom Surrounds thy lover's soul, And wilder floods of grief and woe, Around his spirit roll.

From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by Bartley, James Avis

Surrounds himself with workers: gives his men their jobs and doesn't bother them while they do them—just wants results.

From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Thomson, Charles Goff