enframing

verb

present participle of enframe
as in surrounding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enframing
  1. surrounding
  2. enfolding
  3. encircling
  4. encompassing
  5. confining
  6. restricting
  7. circumscribing
  8. framing
Verb
  • The market is attempting to judge how long high capital expenditures and elevated valuations surrounding AI can be sustained.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • So surrounding Antetokounmpo with shooting was the smart strategy, because the data suggests offenses play at well above-average levels when the two-time MVP is paired with elite shooting.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of surrounding
Verb
  • 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
Definition of enfolding
Verb
  • There are no bleachers, so spectators set up lawn chairs encircling the field.
    — Kelenna Onukwugha, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Its signature Hémisphère features fine grooves encircling each plate like rings around a planet.
    — Angela Tafoya, Architectural Digest, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of encircling
Verb
  • Today, the 103-year-shopping district, encompassing 15 city blocks and styled in Spanish tiles, has improved — if only slightly — with 28% of its storefronts unoccupied.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Today’s tiki scene is vast, encompassing everything from historical venues like Silver Lake’s Tiki-Ti, modern takes on the form such as Tustin’s Stowaway or Highland Park’s Lucky Tiki, or twists such as the seafaring tone of Anaheim’s Strong Water.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of encompassing
Verb
  • Frustrated with the confining nature of Japanese society, Kusama left for New York in 1957.
    — Kaori Kaneko, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • With Rear Window, Hitchcock and his collaborators miraculously craft an exhilarating, satisfying mystery-thriller while confining the protagonist to a single location.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of confining
Verb
  • Compared to other changes—like restricting minor use to two hours per day and giving them the option to have a non-personalized feed—what, exactly, the limits on beauty filters will look like is still a bit fuzzy.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The idea of restricting defenses against nuclear attack has long been a third rail in American politics, especially among Republicans.
    — Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of restricting
Verb
  • 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
Definition of circumscribing
Verb
  • Chancellor Julio Frenk announced the move Monday afternoon in an email to the UCLA community, framing the change around the financial challenges facing an athletic department trying to adapt to a rapidly changing college sports landscape.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Certainly, by lifting part of the museum off the ground, invoking the freeway and framing the long stretch of Wilshire, Zumthor has constructed a worthy metonym for LA.
    — Katy Barkan, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of framing
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“Enframing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enframing. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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