circumnavigate
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But we have have found it is possible to circumnavigate these checks and trick Gemini into saying these fake Google Earth images are real.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
“What I was doing was using my abilities as an artist to circumnavigate their attempt at exercising their power and preventing me from using this exchange as material in my practice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. may hope they can circumnavigate the Islamic Republic by moving oil through new pipelines, but those pipelines will remain vulnerable to missiles and drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
This year’s event will have tweaks beyond the new date: Participants will cycle clockwise for the first time, starting and ending in Enumclaw as they circumnavigate Mount Rainier.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Users could circumnavigate each of these planets and never see the same terrain twice.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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The route circumnavigates Bainbridge Island, earning its reputation along the way, particularly as riders are forced up the mountainous Baker Hill on the island’s south end.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
The L.E.D. screen—sixty feet long and almost two stories tall—flashes with ads for Broadway plays, beer, and children’s movies, as the boat circumnavigates lower Manhattan.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019
The open-air expedition circumnavigates the island’s undeveloped coastline — a mini safari in the middle of the Pacific.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019
It is easily accessed from the “ring road” that circumnavigates the park, the Cabot Trail, and follows a long ridge with a stunning view of the coast.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016
Drake, Francis, freebooter in West Indies, 66; raid on Pacific coast, 70; accompanies Hawkins, 107; attack on Nombre de Dios, 107; on Chagres River, 107; circumnavigates globe, 108; rescues Roanoke Island colonists, 110.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
They dropped anchor off the coast of Shanghai on Dec. 3, having circumnavigated the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
Ferdinand Magellan may have circumnavigated the globe, but he was not an expert on where he was going as he embarked upon the journey.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2024
Frodo, on the other hand, circumnavigated the entire North Pacific—and, as Ransome would discover, he’s not alone.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 28, 2023
Over the past two weeks, I have circumnavigated the globe by land, air and sea.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 5, 2023
On horses they circumnavigated the fields, comparing the progress of the harvest on the two halves.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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The businessman had long been passionate about flying, first taking pilot lessons in 2004 and later setting a world record for circumnavigating the world in a light jet.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
She had long dreamed of circumnavigating the globe, a “shining adventure,” as she wrote, “perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Rutherford is best known for being the first to complete a nonstop solo sail circumnavigating North and South America.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
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It was possible to walk the site’s stone thoroughfares without circumnavigating mile-long lines at the Grey Goose and Heineken stands, but throngs still moved like molasses.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2022
After Eratosthenes, some may have tried, but not until the time of Magellan did anyone succeed in circumnavigating the Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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