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as in to traverse
to travel completely around
the first ship to circumnavigate the globe
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as in to bypass
to avoid by going around
we can circumnavigate the traffic jam if we take the next exit
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Recent Examples of circumnavigate
Steve Bowen and the Ocean Race crew, circumnavigating the globe in their different ways, have a wide choice of forebears.
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Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
On one outdoor deck was a running track that circumnavigated the ship.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
This was the final night of my National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions expedition cruise circumnavigating Iceland for 10 days – and watching an eruption wasn’t on the itinerary at all.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Few records so thoroughly circumnavigate the breadth of outré music while inviting casual listens to pay repeat visits.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2024
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Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
On one outdoor deck was a running track that circumnavigated the ship.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
This was the final night of my National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions expedition cruise circumnavigating Iceland for 10 days – and watching an eruption wasn’t on the itinerary at all.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Few records so thoroughly circumnavigate the breadth of outré music while inviting casual listens to pay repeat visits.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2024
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Guests can traverse bumpy tracks by Jeep to picnic on the never-ending sandy stretch of beaches.Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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The Traitors were not so subtly traversing the castle to find each other.Tom Smyth, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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While mass deportations and the border wall remain a focal point in immigration discourse, tunnels like the one uncovered in El Paso show how traffickers can bypass barriers.Billal Rahman, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Microsoft didn’t outline precisely how the defendants' software was allegedly designed to bypass the guardrails the company had created.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
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The movie also circles around themes of loss, betrayal, unrequited love, and loneliness — but it can easily be missed among the profuse amount of tinsel and blinking Christmas lights.Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2025
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Outside, a helicopter that appeared to be watching the gathering below circled overhead, drowning out conversations.Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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To circumvent the remaining security gaps, organizations must extend their strategy and adopt another dimension to all zero-trust approaches: behavioral understanding.Marcus Fowler, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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And how many Eastwood movies have ended with their protagonists forced to circumvent the forces of authority to achieve justice?A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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That’s an unusual feature, as electrons paired by phonons don’t orbit each other.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
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The astronomical alignment is technically called the ecliptic, which represents the plane of the solar system where planets orbit around the Sun, according to NASA.Hannah Poukish, Sacramento Bee, 11 Jan. 2025
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When Russia targets other European neighbors, though, the West resorts to its own euphemisms to avoid directly acknowledging what Putin is doing.Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
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Remember to keep a thorough record of your communication in writing to avoid any misunderstandings.Christopher Elliott The Travel Troubleshooter, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
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The jersey features Team Vitality’s bee logo, placed within the Eiffel Tower and encircled by a globe–symbolizing the team’s Parisian origins, plus its wider fanbase around the world.Matt Gardner, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Steve Gosney, a Daytona Beach public defender, moved his family to Miami to start a job training new prosecutors and helping shore up some of the ethical issues that have encircled the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office this year.Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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While prison is used to uphold respect for the law by setting an example for others to not cross legal lines, the duration of these sentences and the necessity of placing people to serve their time in prison facilities is proving too costly.Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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This mirrors what has been thoroughly documented along the U.S. border, where migrants attempt to cross through more remote (and therefore deadly) areas to avoid the U.S. Border Patrol.Angel Escamilla Garcia, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Circumnavigate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumnavigate. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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