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- verb Present participle of
circumference .
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Examples
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Like centering and circumferencing, harmony may act "otherwise," as Shelley puts it, than melody.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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Concomitantly, the process of circumferencing, however shifting and variable it appears, does not elude the notion of containment as boundary.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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Supreme masterpiece of Khmer architecture and the moat circumferencing the temple itself an engineering marvel
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In all my circumferencing of the country, I've never driven the Pacific Coast Highway - I've always, had to be somewhere, and a nine-hour drive serpentine two-lane road is incompatible with timely soundchecking.
Punknews.org 2009
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In all my circumferencing of the country, I've never driven the Pacific Coast Highway - I've always, had to be somewhere, and a nine-hour drive serpentine two-lane road is incompatible with timely soundchecking.
Punknews.org 2009
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"It has been decided that truly will the joint fleets remain at station until we are absolutely sure these Tremovan are not attempting some intricate circumferencing maneuver.
The Man Who Used The Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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"It has been decided that truly will the joint fleets remain at station until we are absolutely sure these Tremovan are not attempting some intricate circumferencing maneuver.
The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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