encircled

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The island identified beneath Karnak is the only known example of such high ground encircled by water in the region.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026

In early April, 1992, Bosnian Serb forces encircled Sarajevo, starting what would become the most prolonged siege in modern European history.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

“But the pains weren’t gone in two days; they were worse, and grew worse still, as if something inside her were encircled by a wire being drawn tighter and tighter to cut it in two.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Additional firefighters worked the other edges of the field until it was encircled by strips of burned black grass.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

Newly successful businessmen erected mansions, filled them with imported objets d’art, hung costly crystal chandeliers in every room, and encircled their properties with groves of graceful maple trees and fragrant magnolias.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson