surroundings

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The film plays in much the same space—beautiful people in gorgeous surroundings with violence lurking just under the surface—as last year’s screen version of the Colleen Hoover novel “It Ends With Us.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Walz's lab focuses on producing detailed images of macromolecular complexes, especially proteins found in cell membranes that help cells communicate with their surroundings.

From Science Daily

Alexis de Tocqueville compared the recovery of the ancien régime’s laws and methods to rivers that, having gone underground, re-emerge “at another point in new surroundings.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"Darkness has no power where light arrives, and therefore we implore everyone to be that light in their surroundings. Don't allow evil to come. The best way to banish evil is to shine a light."

From BBC

AGNs emit light across the electromagnetic spectrum and can drive strong jets and winds into their surroundings.

From Science Daily