Thesaurus results for CIRCUITING

circuiting

verb

present participle of circuit

as in circling

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

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Recent Examples of circuiting Some call it timeless, but others worry that in the world of quick-circuiting online trends, color drenching might be a regrettable move. — Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Jan. 2026

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Attendees may make a habit of circling conflicts and calculating whether ten minutes of one set is worth the hike before another begins.

— Svetlana Khachiyan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
The trio lived and worked in space for 245 days, circling Earth 3,920 times and traveling a total of nearly 104 million miles (167 million kilometers), according to NASA.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of circling

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In 2001, Canadarm2 was attached to the International Space Station and used to help build the orbiting laboratory.

— Joanna Goodrich, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026
Canada's GHGSat has a program in which employees name the company's Earth-orbiting satellites after family members, which has generated names from real-life people like Eleonore and Penny.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026

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Now, agents are capable of performing sophisticated workflows and traversing multiple applications by leveraging a critical artifact of modern computing, the application programming interface (API).

— George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
The pair left their vehicle to find assistance, traversing salt flats toward Badwater Road, a two-lane highway encircled by mountains.

— Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2026

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On an August morning two years ago, Meredith Melville was crossing Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, to meet a friend at a cafe.

— Paula Span, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
Her vehicle was eventually logged crossing into Mexico by the Department of Homeland Security.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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