compassed
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“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010
These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first "junior college" in the state.
From Time Magazine Archive
And as men's political horizons expand toward the world state, each man feels a stronger need to cherish some one region small enough to be compassed by one heart and mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus driven from his home, the writer crossed the seas, and passed from land to land, going on and on, till he had compassed the round globe.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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