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surrounded

adjective as in encircled

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Meanwhile, it was still “deployed in the area,” it said, and the military’s Arabic-language spokesman said in a statement that Gaza City was still surrounded by the army and that returning to it was dangerous.

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It was just three days earlier when Judge found himself surrounded by cameras and microphones on Saturday, having to explain how he yet again had shrunk when the Yankees needed him most.

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Portland police say that a vehicle attempted to drive into the crowd that night at one point and was surrounded by demonstrators.

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But the charm is that they are surrounded by towering, elevator-less 1980s apartment buildings, where people hang clothes to dry in metal window cages.

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But the road nicknamed "Lovers' Street" – and the six-storey building that overlooks it – is now surrounded by rubble.

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