in circulation

idiom

: going or passing from person to person or place to place

That rumor has been in circulation for a long time.

coins no longer in circulation

Examples of in circulation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While pennies remain in circulation, some stores have begun running short of them – the penny shortage has hit some McDonald’s locations, too – leaving businesses having to round cash transactions up or down to the nearest five cents when customers don’t have exact change. —Mike Snider, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025

As of this writing, there were 33 people total waiting for the four electronic copies in circulation at the Brooklyn Public Library. —Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025

The latest variant spotted in circulation is one of the most capable yet. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025

While billions of pennies remain in circulation, shortages are expected as coins are lost, removed from circulation by collectors or hoarded. —Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for in circulation

• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration
• accentuation
• accommodation
• accreditation
• acculturation
• accumulation
• acetylation
• adjudication
• administration
• adulteration