envisioning

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We note these shifts, in relationships or jobs or domiciles, reassured that the environing story itself—our lives—are still ongoing.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2014

This center trades with the environing region, sends some capital and labor thither, and draws some of each thence to the home countries.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates

And the shadows—for there seemed to John Hatch to be two of them haunting him now—would fade off elusively into the environing and soundless shade.

From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Stowe informs us that there was a great cloister on the north side of the church, environing a plot of ground, of old time called Pardon church-yard.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

In much the same way the germ acts, and its action is similarly a reaction between the structure of the germ and its environing conditions.

From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by Kellicott, William E.