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circulation

[sur-kyuh-lay-shuhn] / ˌsɜr kjəˈleɪ ʃən /
NOUN
distribution
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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

Dr Joel Zivot, an anaesthesiologist advising Pike's defence team, said two doses of pentobarbital was enough that "she would have surely died" had it entered her bloodstream in normal circulation.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ghali thinks the two countries will have removed about 70% of global inventories from circulation by year-end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

He also secured funding to improve traffic circulation in Santa Clarita and roadways in Antelope Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He could feel his feet beginning to swell because the circulation was cut off by the metal digging into his skin.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

ECCO, the project the new study is based on, simulated ocean circulations using supercomputers from NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and seven other international research entities.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2022

Magazine circulations were too limited for publishers to pay for contributions, and all an author usually got or expected to get was some copies to distribute among his friends.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie




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