surrounding

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An exclave is a portion of a state geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory.

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An environment.

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An environment.

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An outlying area; area in proximity to something.

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noun

An environment.

noun

An outlying area; area in proximity to something.

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An exclave is a portion of a state geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory.

I thought the Stanford/Sandhill area surrounding 280 was undeveloped because the land is owned by Stanford.

Excel is king there and is pretty much the workhorse surrounding the customer, financial and management accounting systems.

However, in the surrounding countries from the Eurozone, tax rates for similar income brackets tend to be significantly higher.

Regarding all of the issues surrounding Windows 10, could somebody create a little app that lets us turn off the objectionable features?

For the in-line version, is it possible to get the baseline on an equation to align with the baseline of the surrounding text?

This guy is taking private policing to his surrounding public neighborhood.

However, if that is indeed the case, then would the ethical issues surrounding the use of human cells in such a fashion be properly founded?

They remove the mystery surrounding how some non-obvious algorithms were discovered.

Sometimes SO has the answer, but I can almost always get a better discussion of the answer and surrounding topic on IRC.

Then you might wander over the mountains (if you can stand the traffic) on 17 to Santa Cruz and surrounding areas, which have some great sights.

I think it depends a lot on the style of the defense and the extent to which the surrounding system pushes toward fairness.

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What is the value of saying, "That's no application programming interface, it's just an implementation detail." I think it just confuses the concept for possible surrounding context.

> What is the value of saying, "That's no application programming interface, it's just an implementation detail." I think it just confuses the concept for possible surrounding context.

Because some of the people involved in the breaches of ethics surrounding media sites like Gawker-run Kotaku were "feminists", and as a result of the association of feminism as an ideology with women as a people: some people can't help but see #GamerGate as an affront to women because "feminists" are involved in the controversy, and on the other side.