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compassed

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verb

past tense of compass
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as in circled
to travel completely around the great age of exploration, when ships of sail compassed the earth

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for compassed
Adjective
  • Sell traveled to tournaments last year as a coach for Giron, who is the most accomplished of the crew.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Fred Hubler is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in both financial services and technology fields.
    Fred Hubler, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Today’s work culture has an over reliance on manual information-sharing and a lack of documentation.
    Anu Bharadwaj, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Moore came in behind the clear-out from the opposite side on an over route and was wide open in a confused Carolina secondary for an easy touchdown to tie the score at 7-7.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Alan Pulido made it 2-0 in the 57th minute, cutting in from the right wing for a through pass by Radoja just beyond the Quakes defense.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
  • But that’s the universal struggle and the only way is through.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • Ultimately, the resort aims to leave guests feeling renewed, uplifted and inspired, ensuring an achieved sense of ‘weightlessness’.
    Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Especially for her father, who, like her mother, was the child of Jewish immigrants, the house embodied the achieved American dream.
    ARTHUR LUBOW, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
Verb
  • Of course, the only way to save the woman is by sawing off her arm.
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Before it was sawed apart, Duccio’s Maestà could only be viewed in one place.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • From raw materials to finished products, real-time inventory tracking enables pharmaceutical companies can significantly enhance visibility and facilitate agile decision-making.
    Oyku Ilgar, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The Food Safety and Inspection Service discovered the issue during routine product testing of finished poultry products, the agency said.
    Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The heaviness of the buying volume tends to offer confirmation of the up move.
    John Navin, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Club holding Nvidia is trying to make a stand here with its first up day of the week, and Meta Platforms is higher after a tough stretch, but the rest of the megacap tech stocks are trading lower.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 18 July 2024
Adjective
  • Soy protein is the only plant protein that’s a complete protein.
    Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Visitors can wander through a tropical rainforest and savanna grasslands, and even smell an ocean complete with coral reef.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024

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“Compassed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compassed. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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