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Recent Examples of circularity
The process itself was developed by Radici InNova, the Italian firm’s research and innovation arm centered around circularity, based on selective dissolution technology.
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Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 5 Jan. 2026
The interconnected nature of the deals, though, reflects the circularity that has defined the AI boom’s financing, spurring fears of a bubble that has already fueled steep stock-price slides from CoreWeave and Oracle.
—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile, in a sign of the UK TV industry’s circularity, Mahon has been touted as a potential replacement for Tim Davie as BBC director general.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2025
Although scaling circularity comes with challenges, the company seeks to grow the Jean of Tomorrow concept beyond its current capsule presence.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 24 Nov. 2025
Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 5 Jan. 2026
The interconnected nature of the deals, though, reflects the circularity that has defined the AI boom’s financing, spurring fears of a bubble that has already fueled steep stock-price slides from CoreWeave and Oracle.
—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile, in a sign of the UK TV industry’s circularity, Mahon has been touted as a potential replacement for Tim Davie as BBC director general.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2025
Although scaling circularity comes with challenges, the company seeks to grow the Jean of Tomorrow concept beyond its current capsule presence.
—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 24 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for circularity
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Plants don’t have lungs, of course, but grapevines do breathe, absorbing oxygen and other atmospheric gases—including smoke—through small pores on the underside of their leaves, or by diffusion across the fruit’s thin, waxy skin.—
Nicola Twilley,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Holes effectively switched partners repeatedly, a process the team calls non-monogamous hole diffusion.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Jan. 2026
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That tautology, in the age of Trump, is now a matter of judicial precedent.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
29 Apr. 2025
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Saying ‘Hungary is for Hungarians’ or ‘America is for Americans’ is a tautology.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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This working prompt injection came only after much trial and error, explaining the verbosity and the detail in it.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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The truth is, there is rarely a Merritt Wever or an Adrien Brody in awards speeches—extreme cases of brevity or verbosity that stun both those in the room and at home.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Over time, increase the repetitions using light weights, then gradually progress to heavier loads, Forsyth recommended.—
Allison Forsyth,
Health,
14 Jan. 2026
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Some apps, like Duolingo, use spaced repetition, but don’t always provide authentic cultural context, which is important for learning intuitively, said Sauer.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
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Flatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.—
Gary Gilson,
Star Tribune,
31 Oct. 2020
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Their circumlocutions were as entrancing as their ability to find the most precisely ironic words for difficult-to-name realities.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
16 Nov. 2023
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Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2022
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2022
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On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.—
Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2023
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Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2023
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“Circularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circularity. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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