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circulate

[sur-kyuh-leyt] / ˈsɜr kjəˌleɪt /




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Every Bitcoin transaction is public, and the number of Bitcoin that will ever circulate has been arbitrarily capped at 21 million.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

The race to solve a Millennium Prize Problem had become so ferociously competitive that OpenAI’s researchers did not circulate the results with outside mathematicians before publication.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Videos of his inspections and press briefings circulate widely on social media, where reels and podcasts have turned him into an unlikely celebrity.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Didn’t they circulate scores of drafts for everyone to see?

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

He felt as though his blood and spirit had both ceased to circulate, and the breath in his lungs, too.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“I don’t hear any noises,” he said, pacing a raised floor above a chamber that circulates air to cool servers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

As the warm water sits still at the top, oxygen no longer circulates to the bottom.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

There, electrically conducting molten iron circulates around the solid inner core.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

As a scholar who researches the relationship between Christianity and fashion, I have traced how Christian imagery circulates in surprising forms.

From Salon May 17, 2026

Pomp, who suffered the sickness as a child, circulates with me among the afflicted, bathing them comfortably and urging them to resist scratching and worrying at the sores, lest they rupture.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

That is one of several aggressive financial projections included in an investor presentation being circulated by Thrive Capital, the investment firm helmed by Joshua Kushner, according to a copy reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

For months, rumors circulated that he had actually died, was on life support or was otherwise incapacitated.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2026

Footage circulated by local media showed a thick column of black smoke rising from the city center.

From Barron's Sep. 5, 2026

But as photos of the poor attendance circulated on social media during the weekend, USC chose to release a statement responding to the online derision.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

To inform the public, they circulated thousands of bold leaflets throughout Munich and other towns in southern Germany.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The blood-brain barrier is a tightly controlled protective boundary that separates circulating blood from brain tissue.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

A week after the floodwaters receded, Angelenos started circulating petitions that would recall the corrupt Shaw from office.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

When former first-grade teacher Ranah Ahmed Burney saw it circulating, she was reminded of a student who wasn’t allowed sugar at home and had begun stealing cookies from a classmate’s lunchbox.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

UK deputy chief veterinary officer Ele Brown said: "Bluetongue is widely circulating in England and our approach needs to keep pace."

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

But they didn’t, and when we came back in after set theory, the cream puffs were still there, cooling in the circulating air coming in beneath the clean lower windows.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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