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Recent Examples of circumambulate
Visitors circumambulate the gallery, opening gray stall doors and finding sculptures inside.
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Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024
Trying to stay upright while circumambulating these tilted, towering forms induced vertigo.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
The stupas’ projecting platforms and pillars were decorated with narrative scenes so devotees circumambulating the stupas (always in a clockwise direction) could familiarize themselves with stories that illustrate Buddhist precepts.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
An aerial view of Muslim pilgrims circumambulating the Grand Mosque in September 2017.
—Eva Dou, WSJ, 31 July 2018
Hajj pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, located in the center of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Aug. 22, 2017.
—Laignee Barron, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
The minimum of wall text is an invitation to circumambulate.
—A.j. Goldmann, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2017
Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024
Trying to stay upright while circumambulating these tilted, towering forms induced vertigo.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
The stupas’ projecting platforms and pillars were decorated with narrative scenes so devotees circumambulating the stupas (always in a clockwise direction) could familiarize themselves with stories that illustrate Buddhist precepts.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
An aerial view of Muslim pilgrims circumambulating the Grand Mosque in September 2017.
—Eva Dou, WSJ, 31 July 2018
Hajj pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, located in the center of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Aug. 22, 2017.
—Laignee Barron, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
The minimum of wall text is an invitation to circumambulate.
—A.j. Goldmann, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumambulate
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Guests can traverse bumpy tracks by Jeep to picnic on the never-ending sandy stretch of beaches.Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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The Traitors were not so subtly traversing the castle to find each other.Tom Smyth, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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While prison is used to uphold respect for the law by setting an example for others to not cross legal lines, the duration of these sentences and the necessity of placing people to serve their time in prison facilities is proving too costly.Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Some of those who chose to walk up PCH tried their luck hitchhiking with the few vehicles that had been able to cross into the evacuation zone.Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Hunter, who’s called upon to bring a dynamic physicality to Solange, perambulating with the assistance of a considerably loud walker, is agonizing and entertaining as a controlling Southern Belle whose microaggressions (and incontinence) eventually pushes her daughter-in-law to the edge.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
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The franchise has moved continually west, perambulating from Rochester to Cincinnati to Kansas City (and, briefly, Omaha, as well), and finally, in 1985, to Sacramento, where its parched fans are enjoying their first playoff run since 2006.Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
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“Circumambulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumambulate. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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