- present participle of circle.
circling
Example Sentences
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Silver Lake’s takeover of Workday would send a clear signal to investors that private-equity firms are circling software.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
That is the sentence, the amount of time, I keep circling.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Blackstone circling $36 billion debt package to back Anthropic’s Google chip rentals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Illegal drones have been spotted circling above the Eurenco plant, leaving some newcomers in town to rethink their decision to relocate there from bigger cities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Donne would have learnt from Hill about the possibility of life on other planets, and of planets circling other stars; he would also have learnt that these strange ideas derived from Giordano Bruno.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
