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circumambulate

[sur-kuhm-am-byuh-leyt] / ˌsɜr kəmˈæm bjəˌleɪt /




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The Brooklyn-based photographer Bryan Thomas has spent much of the past two years in his native Florida, circumambulating the coast and taking pictures of the sea and the sky and the people.

From The New Yorker • May 19, 2017

We’ve already done a lot of circumambulating, negotiating temples and sacred objects in a clockwise direction.

From Washington Post

We’ve already done a lot of circumambulating, negotiating temples and sacred objects in a clockwise direction.

From Washington Post

Yegey was for circumambulating, but Obsle went to the point.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The hollow where the ruins stood is quite visible yet, and the old circumambulating ghost, which, by-the-bye, has unfortunately a white face, is not yet laid.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by Wilson, John Mackay




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