surrounded
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“The love that has surrounded our family during this unimaginable time has brought comfort in the middle of so much pain,” they said in the post.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
By those standards, today we would be surrounded by conscious machines.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
He died on Tuesday evening surrounded by family and loved ones, his family said in a statement.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
In 2012, a team of researchers investigating reports of synchronous fireflies stayed at their bed-and-breakfast in Kellettville, Pa., a small community surrounded by Allegheny National Forest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
The castle was surrounded by towering walls with closed gates, and soldiers guarding those gates with spears and bows and arrows.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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