How to Use back in/into circulation in a Sentence

back in/into circulation

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  • Manuel said his project is still going strong, with 195 bikes back in circulation.
    Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2021
  • People who haven’t been able to wear most of the items in their closets for a year are more aware of waste and want to put their clothes back in circulation.
    Leannie Italie, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2021
  • And not where some scavenging sidewalk salesman can get them back into circulation.
    Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Could used syringes potentially be cleaned and put back into circulation in case of a shortage?
    Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2020
  • To help with the coin shortage and because volumes are ticking up again, Coinstar is making more pickups at kiosks to help get coins back into circulation.
    Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 30 June 2020
  • Meeting rooms in both counties are closed, and books are quarantined for 72 hours before being released back into circulation.
    Catherine Matos, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Horseshoe is back in circulation after being seemingly buried in the recesses of Fort Foxborough.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Sending products back to be repackaged, restocked and resold — sometimes overseas — generates even more carbon emissions, assuming they can be put back in circulation.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Real gold discoveries in the Yukon and Alaska, and a war with Spain, created jobs and put money back into circulation.
    WSJ, 18 Oct. 2020
  • In some ways, the rise of rhinoviruses is a trial run for Covid-19 testing as more respiratory viruses get back into circulation.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The lawsuit alleges some rafts, including the Jaramillos' boat, had temporarily been pulled for repairs that day and put back into circulation without proper testing.
    Melissa Alonso, Hannah Sarisohn and Steve Almasy, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • But warehouse employees, trained to work quickly, don’t always have enough time to carefully inspect each item before putting it back into circulation, according to someone who spent years in the returns operation.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
  • Resale provides a key solution to the negative environmental impact of overconsumption by putting back into circulation clothes and accessories that would otherwise be piling up in our closets—or, worse, in a landfill.
    Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2021
  • So, the 1977 Russian flu virus was actually a strain that had disappeared from the planet a quarter century early, then was somehow resurrected back into circulation.
    Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The containers themselves will go back into circulation in the shipping industry, which is already facing a dire shortage of containers—one that the Ever Given’s seizure by Egyptian authorities only made worse.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 5 July 2021
  • In some corners of the industry, baskets, racks, and thicker tires are popular; Petersen is widely credited with bringing an unfashionable wheel size—the plump, gravel-friendly 650b—back into circulation.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024

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