as in encircles
to form a circle around
she was surrounded by cheering fans within moments of scoring the winning goal
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as in surroundings
the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded
the vast, featureless surround of the desert was strangely appealing to him
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Recent Examples of surrounds
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2024
Downtown Marbella The heart of modern Marbella surrounds bustling Avenida Ricardo Soriano.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
Hooper’s The eerie aura that surrounds the house in the movie even before the first victim steps across the threshold is long gone.
—Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
In this case, the bendy space-time fabric that surrounds us would be illusory, and the quantum particles on the boundary would be the real stuff of existence.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
But for now, the plan for the organization is to continue to cultivate The Bunker as a kind of art space that feels like a throwback to a time when artists and the culture that surrounds them could thrive on a small scale that would support big ideas.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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The comet is thought to have originated in the Oort Cloud — a distant, spherical region of icy bodies that surrounds the solar system.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2024
Downtown Marbella The heart of modern Marbella surrounds bustling Avenida Ricardo Soriano.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
Hooper’s The eerie aura that surrounds the house in the movie even before the first victim steps across the threshold is long gone.
—Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
In this case, the bendy space-time fabric that surrounds us would be illusory, and the quantum particles on the boundary would be the real stuff of existence.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
But for now, the plan for the organization is to continue to cultivate The Bunker as a kind of art space that feels like a throwback to a time when artists and the culture that surrounds them could thrive on a small scale that would support big ideas.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Surrounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surrounds. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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