- present participle of surround.
surrounding
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Arey, who was endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn., has vowed to ensure there’s more transparency and accountability surrounding the district’s nearly $10-billion annual budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Mykel describes similar tensions, saying that some venues are enthusiastic about hosting his events, only to face objections from people in the surrounding community.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The fluid surrounding the outer edges of these tumors is much thicker than the fluid near their centers, forcing cancer cells to encounter increasing resistance as they move into healthy brain tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
This allowed them to calculate how individual electronic states connect with all the possible vibrational configurations of hundreds of surrounding atoms, rather than having to analyze those configurations individually.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Nor was there a single piece of any type of marine excavation equipment in the entire nation or surrounding countries.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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