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But who you surround yourself with is part of who you are, which means staffers can also create problems for the politicians they work for.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

Visions of light, fields of talking flowers, moving patterns, and dense waves of dots would surround and consume her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Firefighters hacked their way through boggy terrain overnight to fully surround Belgium's largest wildfire in a century, but crews were still battling numerous flare-ups in the High Fens nature reserve.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

“It’s hard for smaller parks to compete with the big entities that surround them. Particularly now as we continue to see this amazing growth in technology for rides and attractions,” Speigel said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

An impressive number of emergency vehicles surround my house; red-and-blue lights splash across the lawn and down the street.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

The fairing is the large shell that surrounds a spacecraft at the top of a rocket.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Helbig, the real-estate agent, said the median home price in St. Louis County, which is the area that surrounds the city, was about $313,000 as of the end of July.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

Perhaps the biggest mystery surrounds the actual people of Sanxingdui.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

The park and its surrounds are known as the Amboseli ecosystem, a vast area that straddles the border with Tanzania, which is famous for its wildlife.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

It’s difficult because of the publicity that surrounds our housing development and community.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones

Cherki took Phil Foden's pass on the edge of the area, embarking on a slalom run surrounded by four Palace defenders, leaving them helpless before poking a left-foot finish past keeper Dean Henderson.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

He’d drafted a No. 1 quarterback and surrounded him with weapons—just the way he was supposed to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones,” her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said in a statement Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

And, most importantly, as a washed-up hipster living in central Brooklyn, I am surrounded by fans of Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur—two teams I also know nothing about—and I simply refuse to conform to that coalition.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

The castle was surrounded by towering walls with closed gates, and soldiers guarding those gates with spears and bows and arrows.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Once outside the walls of Buddyland and into the surrounding wilderness, Kelly shifts from boxy TV framing and video texture to a cinematic widescreen ratio, but the milieu still seems half-real, half-stylized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

However, Norwegian royal experts told the BBC that the new king, while facing questions about the turbulence surrounding his family, was respected, hard-working and, they believed, able to move forward despite the challenges.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

When quizzed as to whether the whole narrative surrounding the IPO momentum could be lost if cheaper Chinese competition starts to eat into the market share, Ahn is realistic: “That’s a possibility, yes.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

A gravimeter can detect differences in density, allowing researchers to distinguish the denser surrounding rock from the much lighter buried ice.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

They crowded onto the surrounding hillsides and onto slabs of ice floating offshore.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown