environment.
environmental.
environmentalism.
environmentalist.
1300–50; Middle English envirounen < Old French environner, derivative of environ around ( en en- 1 + viron a circle; vir ( er ) to turn, veer 1 + -on noun suffix)
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The Beach Boys song remains familiar and hummable, but not overly so; it’s warm and inviting, even as it picks up in cadence and transports you to a smooth new environ.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
If they have families its probably not the healthiest environ for them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
As part of this environ, 5 to 7 percent of the faculty and about 5 percent of the staff is volunteers performing service.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2015
On a gray night, with smoke rising from the manholes, the environ looked film-noir-esque from the window view.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2015
It arises above the atoms of its physical being, above the influences which environ it, and says, I will, and executes that will.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
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