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orbited

verb

past tense of orbit

as in circled

to travel completely around the moon orbits the Earth

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Recent Examples of orbited 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 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon while Michael Collins orbited overhead. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, Kirby’s kidnapping case orbited Charlie’s murder case like a distant moon. — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026 The fact that celebrity landed upon him, plucking him from the obscurity of his mission to represent the burgeoning discourse on the disease, says more about the world that orbited him than his actions on the island or his own political nous. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 The satellite has orbited Earth about once every hour and a half for more than two decades, and over time, friction with particles in the upper atmosphere has caused its orbit to decay. — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026 Not by measure alone, but presence — a dynamic force that others orbited. — Dan Robson, New York Times, 29 May 2026 Tito orbited Earth 128 times and even did some science experiments. — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026

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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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