orbited
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After her death, Sir Richard described his wife as the "shining star around which our family's universe has always orbited".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Back in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the Moon 10 times without landing.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Among the many faulty narratives that orbited out of the government, one asked us to consider the mental anguish suffered by these dispatched officers.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026
He added that as the galaxies orbited one another and moved toward the superheated gas cloud surrounding the Virgo cluster, which reaches temperatures about 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, they experienced "ram pressure."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2025
Moreover, it had a full set of phases, proof that it orbited the sun, as in the systems of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
