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surround

[suh-round] / səˈraʊnd /


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The idea was to surround the young core with veterans and immediately become competitive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Other issues surround the company, including constraints on computing power and tight competition with OpenAI, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

On the Sony Pictures lot in Los Angeles, the writers’ offices surround a library stocked with reference books and cultural archives, including every issue of TV Guide dating back to the 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Researchers at the LMS, Imperial and UCL wanted to understand where these cells are located in untreated tumors, what distinguishes them and which other cells tend to surround them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

The walls are glistening white, and two black pillars surround a white statue of Abraham Van Helsing driving a stake into Vladimir, one of the Night Brothers.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Nor is he satisfied with regularly televised Oval Office events, where he surrounds himself with administration officials singing hosannas to his greatness.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Be sure to check out Mendocino Headlands State Park, which nearly surrounds the village, and the Point Mendocino Trail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Quiet and shadowy, it has a slowly mounting power in its depiction of the conspiratorial thinking that surrounds the chronovisor, which Ernetti suggested was suppressed by the Vatican.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The heliosphere is the vast protective bubble produced by the Sun that surrounds the solar system.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

When I awkwardly circle the candles with my hands and repeat the prayers after him, I'm aware of the transcendence of it, the bubble of unseen light that surrounds us.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

The shooting took place in Wedela, a semi-rural township of brick houses and small businesses, surrounded by wide expanses of land used for mining.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Its mouth is triangular, divided into three lips, and surrounded by sensory tendrils, giving it an appearance reminiscent of a tiny marine Sarlacc pit.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Afterward, she posted pictures of herself in the hearing room with supporters including Marafatsos, writing: “Grateful to be surrounded by incredible friends and family.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Footage shared widely online shows them surrounded and repeatedly pleading to be allowed to leave.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I’m surrounded by birds as we speak. Totally comfortable. Hello, birds!”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The company has spent more than three years renovating the spaces surrounding the original Prada store, opened there by Miuccia Prada’s grandfather Mario in 1913.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Iranian officials unveiled the proposal during a week of diplomacy surrounding the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Across the surrounding countryside, seepages resemble miniature volcanoes overflowing with crude and leaving hardened black trails.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

If some ancient inks contained lead, he reasoned, that metal might absorb X rays far more strongly than the surrounding carbonized papyrus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

In the center of the room, there are six wooden chairs surrounding a long oval table.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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