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circulation

[sur-kyuh-lay-shuhn] / ˌsɜr kjəˈleɪ ʃən /
NOUN
distribution
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A treaty limiting future development wouldn’t remove models already in circulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The compression garments were shown to improve circulation and muscle blood flow, while the placebo had no effect on these measures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

This uneven heating created a temperature difference across the Moon's molten interior, setting off large-scale horizontal circulation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Adding to the volatility, hedge funds had piled into US government bonds like never before, holding 7 percent of all those in circulation at the end of 2025, though that share has since fallen.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

He became the world’s foremost authority on thermodynamics and the first to elucidate the principles of the convection of fluids and the circulation of ocean currents.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

That theme eventually smooths the unjust twists in a case propelled by preconceived notions and a hunger for villainy that boosts ratings and magazine circulations.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025

As the world heats unevenly, this causes changes in the atmospheric circulations that steer storms across the planet.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2024

The code has been applied to a wide range of problems, from modeling the dynamics inside individual cells, to ocean and atmospheric circulations.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

In 1985 he began a climb to newspapers with larger newspaper circulations, taking a job as the Mariners beat writer for the now-defunct Bellevue Journal-American.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

It will be perceived that there are two distinct circulations, each of which is carried on by its own system of vessels.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew


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