- present participle of circulate.
circulating
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The polar vortex—the rapidly circulating wind system that traps cold air in the Arctic—has been slowing, and this week it went into reverse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Among footloose families like theirs, the terms Campsgiving, Vansgiving and Glampsgiving have been circulating for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
“Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline,” the musical tagline that first began circulating in 1991, has been reworked into “Maybe. We’re born with it. Maybe. It’s Maybelline.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
The other, published in Nature Metabolism in June, challenges the longstanding belief that many important chemical compounds circulating in the body originate exclusively from intestinal microbes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
One of those cheap plastic white fans sat on the sill, spinning, circulating hot air from outside, inside, and from inside back out.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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