as in encircling
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as in bordering
to serve as a border for
long lashes rimmed his eyes
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Verb
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At just 10 years old, Owen didn't hesitate to join his father, bounding onto the track and climbing onto the car's roof.—
Alex Harrington,
Newsweek,
27 Dec. 2024 -
At just 10 years old, Owen didn't hesitate to join his father, bounding onto the track and climbing onto the car's roof.—
Alex Harrington,
Newsweek,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Buyers showed just enough exertion Tuesday and Wednesday to lift the S & P 500 a quarter of a percent to a marginal new record high each session.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
22 Feb. 2025
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The expiring provisions from Trump’s 2017 law benefit middle- and low-income taxpayers in the form of lower marginal rates and a larger child tax credit, but some disproportionately help the wealthy, including a higher cap on the estate and gift tax.—
David Sivak,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Later, the New York Post reported, she was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, partial paralysis and loss of peripheral vision on her right side.—
Debra J. Saunders,
Orange County Register,
26 Feb. 2025
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Waldock said the helicopter pilots, with their night vision goggles interfering with their peripheral vision, may have wrongly focused on a plane that took off just before the collision.—
Gary Fields,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Rimming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rimming. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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