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On a windy circumambulation of Hell’s Bottom, he runs through the arcane vocabulary of storm-water management.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2022

Most of the highlights of this show’s nearly 250 works are ceramics, carved wood objects and other crafts, often arrayed in round glass cases that permit awed circumambulation.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2017

From wheels and carts to bearings and shafts, cranks and drive mechanisms, each chapter is a historically informed circumambulation of an aspect or manifestation of rotation.

From Nature • Oct. 18, 2016

Miss Suu Kyi was born on a Tuesday, so the circumambulation would render her powerless.

From Economist • Dec. 10, 2015

The Sunnat al-Tawaf, or practice of circumambulation, 170 Sketch of the ceremony of Tawaf, 286 Tawarah tribes of Arabs.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir