Circle and Reach

Circle

Circle noun - A region of activity, knowledge, or influence.

Usage example: that lies outside the circle of our investigation

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Reach and circle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reach" instead the word "Circle" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: circular, circled, circlet, circling

Reach noun - An area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends.

Usage example: she's got a good memory, but critical thinking seems to be beyond her reach

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Circle and reach are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Circle" instead the word "Reach" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: reached, reaching, reachable

good	good circle	good reach
similar	similar circle	similar reach
original	original circle	original reach
small	small circle	small reach
Other adjectives: massive, large, big, great, huge, little, immediate, limited, greater, last, different, wide.

area	circle area	reach area
orbit	circle orbit	reach orbit
house	circle house	reach house
level	circle level	reach level
Other words: screen, earth, world, head, ship, planet, moon.

At the end of the section, you reach the Tower of Babel, but instead of climbing, you circle around it to open the door and then go into the basement to fight a boss.

Source: It's All Upstairs from Here
Most notable are melee fights between convicts and guards, where both parties will circle around, chasing each other at hand's reach.

Source: Video Game / Tomb Raider III
This can reach such an extreme as to circle into inversion, in which none of the members of a goblin community are goblin by blood, and may be homogeneously elves, humans or even dwarves.

Source: Equal-Opportunity Evil

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