circulation

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Recent Examples of circulation The book was later pulled from circulation amid the revelation that Hill plagiarized a portion. N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 15 May 2026 Arteries constantly expand and contract during circulation, placing stress on stiff devices attached to their surface. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026 Taber’s story in Time, which had a circulation of ~20m, hit newsstands on May 31. Mark Dent, HubSpot, 15 May 2026 Around 1870, the New York Sun regularly competed circulation-wise, with the New York Daily News, the Herald, the Tribune and the New York Times, sometimes winning. John Nogowski, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for circulation
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Noun
  • The affected unit, the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, had been scheduled to deploy to Poland and other eastern flank positions as part of a routine nine-month NATO rotation.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2026
  • The Dodgers’ rotation is set for the rest of the series, with right-hander Emmet Sheehan taking the mound Tuesday and Shohei Ohtani set to pitch (and likely hit as well) on Wednesday, the division lead hanging in the balance.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • But distribution — the ability to reach audiences at scale, on fair and open terms — is the oxygen of this industry.
    Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • That location’s design language — mixing local history, British roots and Palace’s skate DNA — signaled the brand’s intent to anchor itself in Asia’s key capitals, complementing distribution in Japan, South Korea, and on Tmall and WeChat in China.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Access to platforms was blocked off with bicycle-rack style barricades and roll-down gates as MTA police officers stood sentry, directing people to alternative transportation.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 16 May 2026
  • The restaurant serves a beloved Mexican take on Japanese sushi, turning the tradition of small raw rolls on its head.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Bands had to create their own vehicles of dissemination.
    Siran Babayan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • Most traditional mass media outlets ascribe to the one-way dissemination model of science communication.
    Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • The first high school basketball player to commit to Kansas in the recruiting class of 2027 is off to a spectacular start on the AAU circuit this spring/summer season.
    Gary Bedore May 22, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • Microchips rely on clock pulses to keep everything in the circuit in sync.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • All the thespian’s chemistry felt less like castmates promoting a production and more like siblings teasing one another out of deep affection.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • However, Samsung's workers' union disputed the impact of the strikes, saying in a statement that previous production pauses had occurred for equipment inspection, maintenance and process adjustments.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • And mistaking one for the other is another legacy of how the Cold War foreshortened the humanistic possibilities of the intellectual revolution of the past eighty years—a revolution that has, miraculously, allowed people to communicate with machines using human languages.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Founding Fathers will go from the stirrings of revolution to the long and bloody fight for independence, and on into the early years of the American republic.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Flemming, along with the rest of the acclaimed Giants broadcasting team — Mike Krukow, Duane Kuiper and Jon Miller — all signed multiyear contracts in early 2025, according to reporting from SFGate.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 21 May 2026
  • But its provisions were established at a time when free over-the-air broadcasting was the only means for television watchers to tune into games played across the country.
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026

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“Circulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circulation. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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