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ringed

adjective as in annular

adjective as in surrounded

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They crawled over rocks and down into tide pools and through the dead fields that ringed the island.

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In nearby Hermiston, Ore., where small armies of workers recently toiled at two data-center sites ringed by barbed-wire fences, officials are trying to annex land for additional development in a bet the boom will continue.

This astrological belief holds that the ringed planet’s return to the position it occupied at a person’s birth marks the dividing line between youth and true adulthood.

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The largest jail for IS suspects is al-Sina in the city of Al Hasakah - ringed by high walls, and watch towers.

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This begins with buds that are ringed in white paper cones that protect the baby plant as it grows.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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