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circumnavigate

verb as in go around

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Director Nancy Medina’s staging, circumnavigating a theatrical circle, lifts the audience out of its proscenium passivity into something almost immersive and definitely interactive.

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Earhart's disappearance during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe spawned numerous theories - from a simple crash due to fuel exhaustion to more elaborate claims of Japanese capture or US government espionage.

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In February, they were seen circumnavigating Australia's coastline for more than three weeks where they staged unprecedented live-fire drills.

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In circumnavigating distant seas, this majestic production recovers some lost treasure of childhood.

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His scheme circumnavigated the existing route of drugs to Scotland through continental Europe, over the sea from Holland to England and then north.

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