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circumambient

[sur-kuhm-am-bee-uhnt] / ˌsɜr kəmˈæm bi ənt /


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With it, we reduce the huge circumambient room for error to a manageable somatic circumference.

From Golf Digest ● May 7, 2020

There is a lot of circumambient madness that the captions help pin down.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2018

One acclaimer was Cambridge's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac who, now only 31, three years ago startled his learned compatriots by declaring that nuclear protons were simply "holes" in the circumambient electronic field.

From Time Magazine Archive

A similar jolt of energy would bolt from a light-weight atom at the instant it acquired energy by merging with another light atom or by accumulating raw energy from circumambient space.

From Time Magazine Archive

Flames rose to a considerable height, "illuminating the circumambient atmosphere and presenting to the eye many dreadful objects, from the supposed haunted grove, which were again instantaneously involved in obscurity".

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Julia Keese Colles


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