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enframing

verb

present participle of enframe

as in surrounding

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Sepesi hopes the worldwide attention surrounding the Pope's diagnosis will encourage more people to learn about lung cancer.

— Tori Mason, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
With so much drama surrounding Taverner and Sid, in particular, the episode keeps most of the other characters on the back burner until next week’s finale.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

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That gallery feels like the perfect frame for Aitken’s work, at once spacious and enfolding, spare and receptive to all that visual and sonic plushness.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
Some may find this a bit too fine-grained, overly implicated in language’s self-enfolding folds.

— Katie Kadue, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

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Captured by the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, or SMILE, the footage reveals the full ring of auroral activity encircling Earth's north pole in ultraviolet light, stretching across both the night and day sides of our planet.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Dumas watched, charmed, his arms encircling his wife’s shoulders, and accepted an ice-cream sundae in a silver parfait cup.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

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Luck was not widespread among Wednesday’s Florida Lotto, Fantasy 5 and Powerball drawings, confining itself to a single ticket.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
If youth teams practiced like the pros, confining full contact to once a week, impacts could fall by more than half, Daneshvar says.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026

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Marshall has consistently voted against Senate War Powers Resolutions aimed at halting or restricting military operations in Iran.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
The episode raised concerns across the technology industry about government officials restricting access to powerful systems.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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In quick succession, the Court began circumscribing Congress’s ability to define rights and act on its constitutional imagination.

— Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
This wouldn’t be the first time the Court has avoided a head-on fight with the other branches, especially after Congress makes noise about circumscribing its authority.

— Time, Time, 14 Nov. 2025

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With two sections framing her face in the front, the back half of her head was teased and tangled into a little bouffant lift at the crown.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Make like Daisy Edgar-Jones and curve the face-framing layers away from your face to create body and dimension, or copy Dakota Johnson’s piece-y fringe and add a dab of dry shampoo to create fluffy volume.

— Lorena Meouchi, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026

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