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circulate

[sur-kyuh-leyt] / ˈsɜr kjəˌleɪt /




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Shellfish, bread, beer circulate around firepits dug into sand.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

These deposits form when hot, mineral-rich fluids circulate through volcanic regions beneath the ocean.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Their identities have not been revealed, but snippets of the video with their faces visible continue to circulate online.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

“Bluesky apology forms” even began to circulate among lefties with a sense of humor and self-effacement.

From Slate Jul. 14, 2026

There were older, hard-time prisoners close to parole, and their detail was to come and clean the cells and circulate books and magazines for you to read.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Much of the interest on the internet circulates around filmmaker Kane Parsons’ viral “found footage” videos on YouTube.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 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

The Andes virus, which circulates in Argentina and Chile and is mainly spread among the long-tailed pygmy rice rat, is the only hantavirus strain known to be able to transmit from human to human.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

Some claims were based on the kind of false and confusing information that always circulates after a major news event with a lot of witnesses.

From Slate Apr. 26, 2026

The scent of oil lamps and old paper and leather circulates.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Ahn was skeptical that Anthropic can achieve the $2 trillion valuation figure that has been widely circulated.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

She acknowledged that Bellina's name had been "widely circulated over the past 48 hours".

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

It was an inconvenient truth Xi’s own remarks had left out, and it circulated widely online before censors moved to contain it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

News of the pregnancy first circulated in April, when representatives for Plaza confirmed to People that the child was due in the fall.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Letters proposing madcap, unpublished ideas, often accompanied by hand-scribbled figures, were circulated among the members; it was a blog before blogs.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“There’s misinformation circulating online today about Girl Scouts and religion,” the organization said in a statement responding to the controversy.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Soon after the research began circulating, I focused one my columns on a list of 22 stocks that the study would have concluded were good bets to lag the market in 2026.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

But proposals circulating earlier this week had revealed that officials from the finance ministry, led by the centre-left SPD party, were pushing for a wider range of drinks to be covered.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Videos circulating on social media on Sunday appeared to show Carse in handcuffs, being led away from a club by four police officers.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

But in the crucible of the moment, another quite plausible definition of leadership was circulating in the upper reaches of the government.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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