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circuited

verb

past tense of circuit

as in circled

to travel completely around after circuiting the exterior of the church, the procession headed inside

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Military helicopter circled overhead, searching for survivors, assessing the disaster and mapping out possible rescue and evacuation routes.

— Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Military helicopters circled overhead, searching for survivors, assessing the disaster and mapping out possible rescue and evacuation routes.

— Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026

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Sting is set to narrate a new documentary portrait of Nino Rota, the Italian composer whose music traversed the worlds of cinema and the concert hall, from Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8½ to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 27 Aug. 2026
The film itself was an odyssey of a shoot, as the cast traversed multiple countries and territories—Scotland, Italy, the Western Sahara, Greece—in all types of weather.

— Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026

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Though the supermassive black hole of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), isn't currently involved in a rpTDE, it is orbited by many rapid stars.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Instead, the museum included Pluto as one of the 300 icy bodies that orbited beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 24 Aug. 2026

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What followed was eight days of evacuation by the Royal Navy aided by a fleet of small private boats that crossed the English Channel to aid in getting the men off the beaches.

— David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
The move to Vegas crossed 18 years, involving two ownerships and five different locations – two in Santa Clara County and two in Oakland proper.

— Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

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